Take it all back · tauren wells

58 bars, 3:04, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 16, and 11 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
TAKE IT ALL BACK · BAR 14
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 11 sections: 43 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
BREAK 2
OUTRO
10 groovesDHEBS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take it all back?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Take it all back hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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