One Way Ticket · ERUPTION

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-107 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ONE WAY TICKET · BAR 8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 2 sections: 100 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-107.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Way Ticket?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Ticket hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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