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Take It To The Limit · The Eagles

EXERCISE 22 OF 52
Join Part D to Part I (bars 86-88)
119 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
PART I
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADHIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take It To The Limit on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1                  2
    1.....2.....3..... 1.....2.....3.....
CC |x-----------------|------------------|
RD |------x--x--x--x--|x-----x--x--x--x--|
SD |------------------|x-----------------|
BD |x--------------x--|------------------|
Take It To The Limit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- A, H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-44 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-87 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 84-103 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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