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一途 (The Only Way/Ichizu) · King Gnu

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove D -- Verse
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VERSE
VERSE 2
CHORUS
VERSE 3
VERSE 4
VERSE 5
7 groovesDNAS9S7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 一途 (The Only Way/Ichizu) on drums

124 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-13, silence through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-35, toms through bars 36-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-59, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 18-20 and 22-23, and 18 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
一途 (The Only Way/Ichizu) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 58 and 70.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-25 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse 2 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse 2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-59 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 一途 (The Only Way/Ichizu)?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 一途 (The Only Way/Ichizu) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 一途 (The Only Way/Ichizu)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 58 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED