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Once Bitten Twice Shy · Great White

EXERCISE 12 OF 38
Groove P -- Part P
144 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
CHORUS
PART P
PART K
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBKPJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Once Bitten Twice Shy on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-64, ride through bars 65-66, toms through bars 67-68, hi-hat through bars 69-84 and ride through bars 85-146, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-64 -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----f-------f---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Once Bitten Twice Shy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 66, 67, 68, 99, 100, 108 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 101-129 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Once Bitten Twice Shy?

132 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 Once Bitten Twice Shy hard to play on drums?

49 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Once Bitten Twice Shy?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 66, 67, 68, 99, 100, 108 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED