Take The Money And Run · Steve Miller Band

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10 and 12, and 20 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 11, 13, 17, 21 and 25 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 4 sections: 34 keep time and 31 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-38.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take The Money And Run?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Take The Money And Run hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Take The Money And Run?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 11, 13, 17, 21 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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