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Almost Again · Strapping Young Lad

EXERCISE 15 OF 44
Join Part A to Part D (bars 15-17)
115 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART D
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Almost Again on drums

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.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
88/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, ride through bars 45-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72, ride through bars 73-100, hi-hat through bars 101-116 and ride through bars 117-128, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |------x---x---x-|
SD |----x---x---x---|
BD |xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Almost Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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