Take Me Away · Lindsay Lohan

99 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopPunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 21-23 and 25-27, and 12 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
TAKE ME AWAY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 17, 18, 19, 20, 51 and 6 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 8 sections: 76 keep time, 12 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-47.

INTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me Away?

135 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?

55 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 12 times: bars 4, 17, 18, 19, 20, 51 and 6 more.

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