Take Me Away · FREAKY FRIDAY jake alan

99 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 21-23 and 25-30, and 11 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
TAKE ME AWAY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 17, 18, 19, 20, 51 and 4 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 8 sections: 78 keep time, 10 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-88.

INTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me Away?

128 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 Me Away hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Take Me Away?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 17, 18, 19, 20, 51 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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