Take My Hand · Simple Plan

182 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 39-41, and 15 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
TAKE MY HAND · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 22, 26, 38, 50, 60 and 17 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 17 sections: 114 keep time, 24 are fills, 18 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 173-181.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMKBVG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take My Hand?

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

Is Take My Hand hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 My Hand?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 22, 26, 38, 50, 60 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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