Here It Goes Again · Ok Go

104 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 55 and 57-59, and 4 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
HERE IT GOES AGAIN · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 15, 21, 30, 31, 39 and 5 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 10 sections: 77 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-69.

PART F
PART H
PART Q
PART H
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNHFQY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Here It Goes Again?

144 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 It Goes Again hard to play on drums?

64 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 It Goes Again?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 15, 21, 30, 31, 39 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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