Take It Out On Me · Thousand Foot Krutch

117 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 6 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 148 BPM
TAKE IT OUT ON ME · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 60, 68 and 7 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 14 sections: 66 keep time, 13 are fills, 19 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-8.

PART C
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART P
OUTRO
8 groovesKCIFO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take It Out On Me?

148 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 Out On Me hard to play on drums?

49 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 60, 68 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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