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Every Once In A While (Rev 1) · Blackhawk

EXERCISE 10 OF 29
2-bar fill at bar 17
82 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBELS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Every Once In A While (Rev 1) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-107.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Every Once In A While (Rev 1) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 32-70 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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