The One That Got Away (Official) · Katy Perry

124 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18, 35-50 and 84-90, and 1 more place -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 133 BPM
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY (OFFICIAL) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 8 sections: 117 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-83.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
4 groovesABS4S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The One That Got Away (Official)?

133 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 That Got Away (Official) hard to play on drums?

54 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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