Almost Again · Strapping Young Lad

165 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-56, 73-84 and 117-128 -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
ALMOST AGAIN · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 44, 72, 99, 100, 116 and 3 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 99-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 9 sections: 144 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-41.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJKDNA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Almost Again?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Almost Again hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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.

How many fills are in Almost Again?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 44, 72, 99, 100, 116 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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