"One Way Or Another" · Blondie

139 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 12 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
"ONE WAY OR ANOTHER" · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 74, 82 and 122.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 6 sections: 110 keep time, 3 are fills, 16 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-68.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHECJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "One Way Or Another"?

160 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?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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"?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 74, 82 and 122.

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