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Take Me To The Top · Mötley Crüe

EXERCISE 25 OF 38
Join Chorus 3 to Part F (bars 110-112)
134 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFPOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me To The Top on drums

149 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 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
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-120, ride through bars 121-128, snare through bars 129-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-149.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-20, 22 and 24, and 8 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|
Take Me To The Top -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 28, 32, 40 and 13 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-50 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-113 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 110-124 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 123-131 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take Me To The Top?

170 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 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 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?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 28, 32, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED