One Way · Hillsongs

120 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 4 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ONE WAY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 119.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 119 · LANDS ON BAR 120
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 8 sections: 101 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-116.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART B
OUTRO
4 groovesDBS5HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Way?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Way hard to play on drums?

49 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in One Way?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 119.

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