Take This Life (True Version) · In Flames

213 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 27-33 and 69-70, and 17 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 240 BPM
TAKE THIS LIFE (TRUE VERSION) · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 25, 26 and 48 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 17 sections: 119 keep time, 54 are fills, 24 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 156-163.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
7 groovesGBNQT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take This Life (True Version)?

240 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 This Life (True Version) hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 This Life (True Version)?

15 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 25, 26 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED
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