Take Me Out · Franz Ferdinand

109 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 46-48, and 11 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
TAKE ME OUT · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 67, 69, 71 and 9 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 83 keep time and 16 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-66.

PART C
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesILDCG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me Out?

142 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 Out hard to play on drums?

63 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Take Me Out?

3 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 67, 69, 71 and 9 more.

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