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Take Me To The River · Talking Heads

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove A -- Outro
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0 / 11 PASSED · 103 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me To The River on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, toms through bars 57-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-49, 51-54 and 59-85, and 1 more place -- 92.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 55, 56, 57, 58 and 111.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Take Me To The River?

100 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 To The River hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 To The River?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 55, 56, 57, 58 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED