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Take Me Out · Scandal

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me Out on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-27, hi-hat through bars 28-38 and ride through bars 39-61, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |---x--x----x--x-|
BD |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-28 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-47 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-71 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-82 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-106 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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