Do It Again : · Steely Dan

184 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-50, 61-75 and 86-90, and 6 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DO IT AGAIN : · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 23 sections: 160 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-25.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 5
PART D
CHORUS 6
5 groovesCABDGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Do It 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 Do It Again : hard to play on drums?

56 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?

184 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

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