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Take it or leave it · Coin

EXERCISE 15 OF 16
4-bar fill at bar 68
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0 / 16 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take it or leave it on drums

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

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 2-43, snare through bars 44-45, hi-hat through bars 46-52, ride through bars 53-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-71.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-----x--x---|
Take it or leave it -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-47 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes. Open above.
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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