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Take The Money And Run · Steve Miller Band

EXERCISE 14 OF 34
Fill at bar 13, 21, 23 and 4 more (a small one)
41 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take The Money And Run on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-69.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-xxx-x-x-xx|
SD |-g-gxg-g-g-gxg-g|
BD |x-x----xx-x----x|
Take The Money And Run -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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