Take on Me by Aha (us 3) · Misc Covers

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.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

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.

LOOP · 169 BPM
TAKE ON ME BY AHA (US 3) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 3 sections: 157 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-164.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take on Me by Aha (us 3)?

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 by Aha (us 3) hard to play on drums?

59 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 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 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 by Aha (us 3)?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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