Here I Go Again · Whitesnake

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 22-24 and 32-34, and 5 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
HERE I GO AGAIN · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 6 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 35-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 83-84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 5 sections: 63 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-72.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Here I Go Again?

88 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 hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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