Take Cover · Mr. Big

208 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 41 more places -- 63.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 210 BPM
TAKE COVER · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 6 sections: 205 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-100.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACGS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Cover?

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

Is Take Cover hard to play on drums?

52 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?

208 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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