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Take Me Away · Lindsay Lohan

Take Me Away · Lindsay Lohan
EXERCISE 5 OF 21
Run C1 · Intro (bars 4-8)
71 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE INTRO
INTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me Away on drums

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

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-19, snare through bars 20-31, hi-hat through bars 32-50 and snare through bars 51-92, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Take Me Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Intro and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-48 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-48 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED