Take On Me · a-ha

175 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronic150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-44, 49-52 and 65-72, and 8 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 169 BPM
TAKE ON ME · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 165, 166, 167 and 168.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 165-168 · LANDS ON BAR 169 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 10 sections: 157 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-160.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART D
CHORUS 3
7 groovesHDAMS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take On Me?

169 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 On Me hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 On Me?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 165, 166, 167 and 168.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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