Take Warning · Operation Ivy

57 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-43, 45-47 and 49-56 -- 87.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
TAKE WARNING · BARS 5-6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 48.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars: 50 keep time, 2 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-43.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Warning?

90 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 Warning hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Warning?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 57 BARS ANALYSED
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