take-on-me · Aha

160 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 14 and 16, and 23 more places -- 67.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 168 BPM
TAKE-ON-ME · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 119 and 120.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 119-120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 14 sections: 139 keep time, 3 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-160.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART D
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDFAS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is take-on-me?

168 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?

56 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in take-on-me?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 119 and 120.

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