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Take on Me · Aha

Take on Me · Aha
EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take on Me on drums

164 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 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
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 14 and 16, and 23 more places -- 70.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 36, 64, 108 and 120.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-109 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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?

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

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 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 on Me?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 36, 64, 108 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED