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Take It On The Run · REO Speedwagon

EXERCISE 3 OF 28
Groove J -- Verse
17 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
VERSE
OUTRO
5 groovesCFJMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take It On The Run on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 1 more place -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x---x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Take It On The Run -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 32, 36, 56, 60, 64 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, F -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 12-33 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-44 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Take It On The Run?

78 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 Take It On The Run hard to play on drums?

54 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Take It On The Run?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 32, 36, 56, 60, 64 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED