Stuck Here Again · L7

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 49-53 and 55, and 1 more place -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
STUCK HERE AGAIN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 32, 40 and 12 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 11 sections: 58 keep time, 18 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACHSJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stuck Here Again?

95 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 Stuck Here Again hard to play on drums?

55 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 Stuck Here Again?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 32, 40 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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