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

EXERCISE 10 OF 17
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
151 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
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 by Aha (us 3) 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.

59 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
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-92, kick and crashes through bars 93-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-164.

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Take on Me by Aha (us 3) -- 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 14 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 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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