Take Me Home · Phil Collins

169 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 14 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.

LOOP · 118 BPM
TAKE ME HOME · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 163 and 164.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 163-164 · LANDS ON BAR 165 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 13 sections: 145 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-43.

PART D
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART AA
PART E
CHORUS 3
10 groovesCIJEG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me Home?

118 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 Home hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Home?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 163 and 164.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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