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The Take Over, The Breaks Over · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 4 OF 47
Groove E -- Verse (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Take Over, The Breaks Over on drums

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

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-53, snare through bars 54-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-102, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|x-x---x-x---x---|
The Take Over, The Breaks Over -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 25, 33, 37, 53, 65, 69 and 14 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 -- B, H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-38 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-87 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 82-102 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 100-118 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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