Take Me Away · Happy Days

149 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 103 BPM, 4:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-27, 29-35 and 37-43 -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
TAKE ME AWAY · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 16, 28, 36 and 7 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 11 sections: 79 keep time, 13 are fills, 7 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-89.

PART D
PART F
PART S5
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS11NFKS5+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me Away?

103 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 Me Away hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Me Away?

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 16, 28, 36 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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