Take Me Out · Scandal

134 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 21-27 and 39-45, and 8 more places -- 50.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
TAKE ME OUT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 38, 46 and 16 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 11 sections: 97 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIESS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me Out?

125 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?

61 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Out?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 38, 46 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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