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Only One · Yellowcard

EXERCISE 8 OF 32
Groove E -- Verse
62 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
PART B
VERSE
CHORUS
PART B
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only One on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x-x-xxx-x-x-x|
Only One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-17 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Verse 2 and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-66 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED