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One Way Or Another · Blondie

EXERCISE 19 OF 44
Run I1 · Part I (bars 66-70)
98 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDGAUN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Way Or Another on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-68, hi-hat through bars 69-76 and ride through bars 77-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-78 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-118 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-104 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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