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Take Me Out · Franz Ferdinand

EXERCISE 12 OF 32
Groove G -- Part G
85 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me Out on drums

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

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-109.

The beat

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.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Take Me Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 22-34 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-71 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED