One Week · Barenaked Ladies

78 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-21, 45-55 and 71-77 -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ONE WEEK · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-21.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Week?

110 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 Week hard to play on drums?

46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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