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Take Me Home Tonight · Eddie Money

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove I -- Chorus
0 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me Home Tonight on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-78, snare through bars 79-82, hi-hat through bars 83-86, silence through bars 87-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-118.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Take Me Home Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-72 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-83 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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