Take It To The Limit · The Eagles

147 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 94 BPM, 4:42 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-20 and 25-36, and 20 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 39, 40, 48, 50, 70, 85 and 24 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 85-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 13 sections: 80 keep time, 32 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-19.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART I
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADHIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take It To The Limit?

94 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 To The Limit hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 To The Limit?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 39, 40, 48, 50, 70, 85 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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