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Here It Goes Again · Ok Go

EXERCISE 15 OF 51
Join Part F to Part H (bars 14-16)
58 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART H
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Here It Goes Again on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, ride through bars 8-15, hi-hat through bars 16-29 and ride through bars 30-31, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Here It Goes Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 16-72 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

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