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Taking Over Me · Evanescence

EXERCISE 18 OF 27
Groove L
54 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK 4
OUTRO
8 groovesECS9BS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Taking Over Me on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, silence through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-56, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Taking Over Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-39 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break 4 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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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