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Take Me · Casiopea

EXERCISE 1 OF 68
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART Z
PART AF
PART AK
PART AC
OUTRO
12 groovesDZBAFAK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-64, ride through bars 65-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-20 and 22, and 3 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x--x---x--x-----|
Take Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 21, 23, 25, 29, 30 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- D, AF -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-44 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take Me?

98 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 hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 21, 23, 25, 29, 30 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED