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"One Way Or Another" · Blondie

EXERCISE 7 OF 26
Groove C -- Part C
100 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART E, CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHECJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "One Way Or Another" on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-106, snare through bars 107-122 and hi-hat through bars 123-139.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
"One Way Or Another" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D, H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 30-107 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED