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Start Again · HER LAST SIGHT((@&**@*@)

EXERCISE 32 OF 81
Join Part J to Chorus 3 (bars 39-41)
64 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART AJ
PART J
PART S11
PART AS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFJDS11AJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Start Again on drums

137 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-56, hi-hat through bars 57-63 and snare through bars 64-71, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 25, and 16 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----------x-----|
Start Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 8, 20, 24, 32, 34 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-41 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Start Again?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Start Again hard to play on drums?

63 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Start Again?

18 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 8, 20, 24, 32, 34 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED