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Take It Out On Me · Thousand Foot Krutch

EXERCISE 6 OF 41
Groove F -- Part F
53 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take It Out On Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 3-15, snare through bars 16-40, hi-hat through bars 41-51, snare through bars 52-76, silence through bars 77-79 and snare through bars 80-89, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- K, I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-28 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-87 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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