Every Once In A While (Rev 1) · Blackhawk

107 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 12 and 19-23, and 11 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE (REV 1) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 18, 24, 29, 49, 67 and 10 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 7 sections: 78 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-16.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBELS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Every Once In A While (Rev 1)?

117 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 Every Once In A While (Rev 1) hard to play on drums?

48 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Every Once In A While (Rev 1)?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 18, 24, 29, 49, 67 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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