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Once In A Lifetime · Talking Heads

EXERCISE 2 OF 11
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Once In A Lifetime on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-29 and 38-103 -- 71.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    22               23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x-xxx-xxxxxxx-x-|x-xxx-x-xxxxx-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x--x----x--x|
T1 |--------------x-|----------------|
T2 |----------------|--------------x-|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
Once In A Lifetime -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 15 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-33 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Once In A Lifetime?

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 Once In A Lifetime hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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