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Take This Life (True Version) · In Flames

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 56 PASSED · 58 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take This Life (True Version) on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-24 and toms through bars 25-26, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Take This Life (True Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- G, B -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-114 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-110 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 109-135 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 117-173 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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