Take Me First · Bad Omens

133 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 18 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
TAKE ME FIRST · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 25, 45, 49, 53, 59 and 13 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 15 sections: 67 keep time, 19 are fills, 18 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-37.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
PART I
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART I
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMCIGQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me First?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Take Me First hard to play on drums?

52 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 First?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 25, 45, 49, 53, 59 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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