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Take my hand · 「Story of Hope」

EXERCISE 1 OF 99
Groove I -- Chorus
0 / 164 BARS COVERED
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PART E
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART S
PART AO
PART AV
PART BB
CHORUS 3
12 groovesIEAOAVA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take my hand on drums

164 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, snare through bars 26-27, toms through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37, snare through bars 38-43 and toms through bars 44-45, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22-23, and 6 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----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

23 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 24, 25, 26 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- I, E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-87 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-31 -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-77 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take my hand?

192 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?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

23 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 24, 25, 26 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED