Winner takes it all - ABBA · Tommy J

127 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 23-29 and 35-37, and 5 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
WINNER TAKES IT ALL - ABBA · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 22 and 12 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 22 sections: 75 keep time, 18 are fills, 4 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-29.

PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGJAMS14+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Winner takes it all - ABBA?

127 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 Winner takes it all - ABBA hard to play on drums?

48 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Winner takes it all - ABBA?

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 22 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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