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Again And Again · Presence

Again And Again · Presence
EXERCISE 12 OF 47
Groove G
87 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Again And Again on drums

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

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-69, toms through bars 70-82 and snare through bars 83-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Again And Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- J, A -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-9 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 19-45 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-70 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-83 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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