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Take me away · Peace Cult

Take me away · Peace Cult
EXERCISE 9 OF 29
Groove H -- Part H
76 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART D
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFHDK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take me away on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-31, hi-hat through bars 32-47, kick and crashes through bars 48-51 and snare through bars 52-93, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 21-30 and 52-61, and 3 more places -- 49.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 16, 31, 37, 39, 47 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 17-40 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-94 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Take me away?

130 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?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 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?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 16, 31, 37, 39, 47 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED