Take My Breath Away · Berlin

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-101 -- 98% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
TAKE MY BREATH AWAY · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 2 sections: 100 keep time, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-101.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take My Breath Away?

97 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 My Breath Away hard to play on drums?

42 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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