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Here I Go Again (1987 Radio Mix Version) · Whitesnake

EXERCISE 21 OF 37
Fill at bar 57 (a small one)
80 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBSFJOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Here I Go Again (1987 Radio Mix Version) on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-35, ride through bars 36-39, hi-hat through bars 40-55, ride through bars 56-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-18 and 20-28, and 2 more places -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Here I Go Again (1987 Radio Mix Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 29, 31, 33 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-50 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 60-80 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Here I Go Again (1987 Radio Mix Version)?

94 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 Here I Go Again (1987 Radio Mix Version) hard to play on drums?

49 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Here I Go Again (1987 Radio Mix Version)?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 29, 31, 33 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED