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The One I Love · R.E.M.

EXERCISE 18 OF 27
Groove K
90 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCJIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The One I Love on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, ride through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-41, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-------x-x-----|
HF |----------------|x---------------|
The One I Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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