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Taking Off · The Cure

EXERCISE 25 OF 46
Join Part F to Part M (bars 72-74)
88 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART M
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFAMRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Taking Off on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and hi-hat foot.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
35/100

toms through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, toms through bars 41-63, hi-hat through bars 64-73, toms through bars 74-88 and ride through bars 89-103, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 49-55 and 57-63 -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |x-------------xx|
FT |--x---x-x-x-----|
Taking Off -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 40, 44, 48 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, A, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-41 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-45 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-74 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Taking Off?

147 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 Taking Off hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom 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 Taking Off?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 40, 44, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED