Alone Again · Dokken

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 14, and 3 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
ALONE AGAIN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13 and 15 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-62.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
5 groovesJDHS8S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alone Again?

78 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 Alone Again hard to play on drums?

53 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Alone Again?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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