Taking Over Me · Evanescence

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 41-43, and 7 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
TAKING OVER ME · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 40, 44, 72, 74, 76 and 2 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-56.

PART C
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK 4
OUTRO
8 groovesECS9BS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Taking Over Me?

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 Taking Over Me hard to play on drums?

54 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Taking Over Me?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 40, 44, 72, 74, 76 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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