One Way Or Another · Blondie

136 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-23, 25-31 and 85-100 -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 68, 76, 116, 124, 128 and 1 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 9 sections: 108 keep time, 7 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-100.

CHORUS
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDGAUN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Way Or Another?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is One Way Or Another hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Way Or Another?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 68, 76, 116, 124, 128 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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