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One-X · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART D
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAKFHD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One-X on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
39/100

snare through bars 1-26, silence through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-80, toms through bars 81-82, hi-hat through bars 83-89 and silence through bars 90-96, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-26 and 45-62 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|--x-x-----x-----|
HF |x-X-x-X-x-X-x-X-|x-X-x-X-x-X-x-X-|
One-X -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 30, 36, 66, 72, 81, 82 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A, K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-97 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-44 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-103 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 100-119 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is One-X?

132 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-X hard to play on drums?

39 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in One-X?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 30, 36, 66, 72, 81, 82 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED