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Take The Time · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 1 OF 126
Groove J -- Part J
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PART J
PART J
PART J
PART AP
PART CG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
19 groovesS22JAPCGAI+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 3
JOIN · 20
LINK · 13
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take The Time on drums

256 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 10:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
10:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-49 and ride through bars 50-58, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 59-61, and 3 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Take The Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 25, 29, 33 and 75 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 99 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 -- J, AP -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 22 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take The Time?

120 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 Time hard to play on drums?

60 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 10:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 30 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 Time?

26 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 25, 29, 33 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED