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Once More to See You · Mitski

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 7 PASSED · 61 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Once More to See You on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
22/100

snare through bars 1-44, ride through bars 45-53, snare through bars 54-61, ride through bars 62-63 and snare through bars 64-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-47 and 53-66 -- 91% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Once More to See You -- 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 6 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Once More to See You?

94 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 More to See You hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED