Only One · Yellowcard

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-24 and 41-43, and 7 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 81 BPM
ONLY ONE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 44, 49, 53, 61 and 5 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-35.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only One?

81 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 Only One hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 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 Only One?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 44, 49, 53, 61 and 5 more.

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