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The Winner Takes It All · ABBA

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 86 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Winner Takes It All on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-70, silence through bars 71-84, toms through bars 85-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-119.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-20, 22-28 and 30-36, and 7 more places -- 85.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HF |----------------|--------------x-|
The Winner Takes It All -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 29, 37, 53, 61, 86 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Winner Takes It All?

123 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 Winner Takes It All hard to play on drums?

56 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick 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 The Winner Takes It All?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 29, 37, 53, 61, 86 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED