Again · AALA

18 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 0:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
18
LENGTH
0:38
DIFFICULTY
5/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17 -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
AGAIN · BAR 16
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

18 bars across 4 sections: 5 keep time, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent.

CHORUS
PART B
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesS1BS3DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Again?

115 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 Again hard to play on drums?

5 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

18 bars, about 0:38 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 4 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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