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take-on-me · Aha

take-on-me · Aha
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play take-on-me on drums

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

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-92, silence through bars 93-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-160.

The beat

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.

    5
    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 3 times: bars 64, 119 and 120.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-30 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 6 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED