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Here I Go Again · Whitesnake

EXERCISE 16 OF 24
Groove S
75 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Here I Go Again on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-35, toms through bars 36-40, ride through bars 41-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-84.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Here I Go Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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