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Take Me To The Top (Correct Version) · Mötley Crüe

EXERCISE 5 OF 42
Groove J -- Part J
75 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBJFRQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me To The Top (Correct Version) on drums

150 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-121, ride through bars 122-129, snare through bars 130-131 and hi-hat through bars 132-150.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-19, 21 and 23, and 6 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x----x----------x----x----------|
Take Me To The Top (Correct Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 27, 28, 32, 40 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-114 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-72 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-117 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take Me To The Top (Correct Version)?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Take Me To The Top (Correct Version) hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 Top (Correct Version)?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 27, 28, 32, 40 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED