Once Upon a Time · Atlas Pain

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 3 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ONCE UPON A TIME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 16, 24, 28 and 23 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 59 keep time, 29 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART L
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesELUAHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Once Upon a Time?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Upon a Time hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Once Upon a Time?

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 16, 24, 28 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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