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Take Me First · Bad Omens

EXERCISE 10 OF 46
Groove F
66 / 133 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me First on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-38, silence through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-79, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 22-50 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-71 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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