Takin' Care of Business · Bachman-Turner Overdrive

159 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-31 and 33-159 -- 98.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 32.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 2 sections: 154 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-159.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Takin' Care of Business?

126 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 Takin' Care of Business hard to play on drums?

51 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Takin' Care of Business?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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