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Take My Hand · Simple Plan

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove M -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take My Hand on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-44, snare through bars 45-46, hi-hat through bars 47-82, snare through bars 83-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-120, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Take My Hand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- M, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-30 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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