The Take Over, The Breaks Over · Fall Out Boy

133 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-16, 34-36 and 38-44, and 1 more place -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 149 BPM
THE TAKE OVER, THE BREAKS OVER · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 25, 33, 37, 53, 65, 69 and 14 more.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 12 sections: 75 keep time, 20 are fills, 19 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART B
VERSE
CHORUS
PART B
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART Q
PART S9
PART W
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHBEQS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Take Over, The Breaks Over?

149 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 The Take Over, The Breaks Over hard to play on drums?

61 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?

133 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 The Take Over, The Breaks Over?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 25, 33, 37, 53, 65, 69 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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