The Other One · Grateful Dead

654 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 12:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
654
LENGTH
12:46
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 4% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 164, 166 and 168, and 5 more places -- 3.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE OTHER ONE · BAR 164
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 14, 75, 156, 157, 158, 203 and 89 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 203-208 · LANDS ON BAR 209 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

654 bars across 64 sections: 420 keep time, 95 are fills, 14 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-129.

CHORUS 2
PART DN
53 groovesDABDNCCJ+48Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Other One?

170 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Other One hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

654 bars, about 12:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 209 exercises over 63 sittings, about 25 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 Other One?

22 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 14, 75, 156, 157, 158, 203 and 89 more.

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