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Again · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 9 OF 15
Groove H -- Part H
93 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Again on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-29, ride through bars 30-37, toms through bars 38-61, ride through bars 62-69, hi-hat through bars 70-73 and snare through bars 74-80, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-29, 38-61 and 82-97 -- 54.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-XX|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Again -- 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 14 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-41 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Again?

123 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?

53 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED