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Do It Again : · Steely Dan

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 74 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART D
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
5 groovesCABDGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Do It Again : on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-35, ride through bars 36-50, hi-hat through bars 51-60, ride through bars 61-75, hi-hat through bars 76-85 and ride through bars 86-90, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---------x-----|
Do It Again : -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 22-83 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-89 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 87-128 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 97-134 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 156-169 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 169-176 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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