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The One · Akrem Chekki
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EXERCISE 4 OF 70
Groove N -- Part N
12 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART N
PART N
PART Z
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesIXEAQAK+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The One on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-21, hi-hat through bars 22-42, silence through bars 43-48, snare through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-59, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 55-58, 66-69 and 102-105 -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66                                               67
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------x---------x-|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|------o-----o-----o-----------------------------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
T1 |------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------x---------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------x-x-x---------|
FT |------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------x---x-x-|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-x-x-------------------|
The One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 29, 30, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- X -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-31 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-36 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-39 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The One?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The One hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The One?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 29, 30, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED