Take me away · Lash

109 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 21-23 and 25-26, and 9 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
TAKE ME AWAY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 28, 39, 51 and 6 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 16 sections: 75 keep time, 12 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCEDHB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take me away?

125 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?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Take me away?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 28, 39, 51 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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