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Here I Go Again v2 · Whitesnake

EXERCISE 5 OF 25
Groove U -- Outro
45 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBURS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Here I Go Again v2 on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 3-60, ride through bars 61-63, snare through bars 64-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-19 and 21-29, and 4 more places -- 48.9% 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 v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 10, 20, 30, 31, 32 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- U, R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-68 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Here I Go Again v2?

93 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 v2 hard to play on drums?

48 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?

91 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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.

How many fills are in Here I Go Again v2?

7 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 10, 20, 30, 31, 32 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED