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One - · U2 - Mary J. Blige

One - · U2 - Mary J. Blige
EXERCISE 13 OF 23
Groove H
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PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One - on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-73, ride through bars 74-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 16 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
One - -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 62, 70, 73, 78, 79 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-63 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is One -?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is One - hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in One -?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 62, 70, 73, 78, 79 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED