Take Me Home Tonight · Eddie Money

118 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 61-63, and 7 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 34, 42, 46, 54, 60 and 3 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 10 sections: 92 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-27.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIANCQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me Home Tonight?

135 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 Tonight hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 34, 42, 46, 54, 60 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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