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One Way or Another · Koiai

EXERCISE 25 OF 68
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 68 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART I
PART D
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART K
PART M
OUTRO
9 groovesOMKDAM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Way or Another on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, ride through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-55 and ride through bars 56-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-30, 36-38 and 40-45, and 5 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |---o--o--o--o--o--o--o--|
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

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 39, 47 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- O -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 3-16 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-56 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is One Way or Another?

132 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 or Another hard to play on drums?

57 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?

137 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 39, 47 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED