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Take It · Staind

EXERCISE 10 OF 36
Groove F -- Part F
49 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
PART C
PART F
PART I
PART C
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesLCIQS12+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take It on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-80, ride through bars 81-90 and silence through bars 91-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-62, 65-66 and 69-70, and 1 more place -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |------x-----------------|
HH |o-----------o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-------x---x-|
Take It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 42, 50, 84 and 88.

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 -- Q, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-23 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-52 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-74 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take It?

100 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 hard to play on drums?

59 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 42, 50, 84 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED