Take You At Your Word · Cody Carnes

145 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 7:34 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
7:34
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 54-68 -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
TAKE YOU AT YOUR WORD · BARS 54-55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 71, 75, 77, 79, 80 and 9 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 79-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 15 are fills, 15 are stops and 48 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-52.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS9BNQL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take You At Your Word?

115 BPM, in 6/4, 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 You At Your Word hard to play on drums?

33 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 7:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 You At Your Word?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 71, 75, 77, 79, 80 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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