Take it or leave it · Coin

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 2:46 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-11 and 21-22, and 7 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 68, 69, 70 and 71.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 68-71 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 7 sections: 61 keep time, 4 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-67.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take it or leave it?

103 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 or leave it hard to play on drums?

62 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Take it or leave it?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 68, 69, 70 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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