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Again · Earshot

Again · Earshot
EXERCISE 9 OF 42
Groove D
88 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART F
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesICFOE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Again on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, snare through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-72, snare through bars 73-76, hi-hat through bars 77-104 and snare through bars 105-125.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 30 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 36, 43, 59, 60, 68 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C, I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-32 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-52 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-78 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-95 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Again?

120 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?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 36, 43, 59, 60, 68 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED