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Winner takes it all - ABBA · Tommy J

EXERCISE 34 OF 52
Groove R -- Part R
90 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART A
CHORUS
PART R
BREAK
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGJAMS14+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Winner takes it all - ABBA on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-78, silence through bars 79-87, kick and crashes through bars 88-95 and hi-hat through bars 96-127.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Winner takes it all - ABBA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-35 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-49 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-64 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 72-113 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 112-127 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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