Again And Again · Presence

113 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 49-55 and 57-63, and 2 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 117 BPM
AGAIN AND AGAIN · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 18, 20, 28, 42, 48 and 9 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 17 sections: 73 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-63.

PART E
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJACEO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Again And Again?

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 Again And Again hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Again And Again?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 18, 20, 28, 42, 48 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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