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Take It Out On Me · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 3 OF 73
Groove V -- Part V
59 / 278 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART AB
15 groovesHPABVU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take It Out On Me on drums

278 bars at 234 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
234 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-31, kick and crashes through bars 32-33, snare through bars 34-46, toms through bars 47-49 and snare through bars 50-62, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-28 and 30-31, and 7 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Take It Out On Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 72, 73, 113, 129, 138 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- H, U -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-91 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-59 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take It Out On Me?

234 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 It Out On Me hard to play on drums?

61 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

278 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Out On Me?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 72, 73, 113, 129, 138 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED