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We're Not Gonna Take It · Twisted Sister

EXERCISE 12 OF 60
Groove H
80 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJGAABU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We're Not Gonna Take It on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-31, ride through bars 32-37, toms through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-53 and toms through bars 54-59, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 32-36, 65-70 and 73-78, and 3 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    32               33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|----------------|
RD |--------x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|--x-----x-x---x-|
We're Not Gonna Take It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 22, 23, 31, 37, 39 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- J, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-84 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We're Not Gonna Take It?

148 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 We're Not Gonna Take It 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 We're Not Gonna Take It?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 22, 23, 31, 37, 39 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED