The One I Love · R.E.M.

101 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-16, and 6 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
THE ONE I LOVE · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 25, 29 and 10 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 3 sections: 79 keep time, 16 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-40.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCJIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The One I Love?

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 The One I Love hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 I Love?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 25, 29 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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