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Take Me Away · Happy Days

Take Me Away · Happy Days
EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove F -- Part F
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0 / 43 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me Away on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-45, silence through bars 46-57, kick and crashes through bars 58-59, silence through bars 60-61 and kick and crashes through bars 62-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Take Me Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-94 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-119 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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