Take On Me was written by the members of the Norwegian band, A-ha. A-ha released the song in 1985 and it became a hit due in part to its award-winning music video. The video featured a technique called rotoscoping in which pencil sketches are animated. The instrumentation is dominated by sythesizer while the vocal climbs through a 2-1/2 octave range.
For our version of Take On Me, bass player, Rodger Hutchins, handles the keyboards using a Roland midi synthesizer while Tom Penick sings the lead vocal and plays the bass part using a 6-string guitar lowered one octave by a DigiTech processor. Drummer, Jeff Pounds, provides the backing vocal.
Play Take On Me (recorded in practice by Tomzap 6-30-12)
See the music video by the band A-ha
Take on me, take me on (Take on me, take on me)
I'll be gone In a day or two
So needless to say I'm odds and ends
But I'll be stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is OK
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry
Synthesizer solo
Oh the things that you say Is it live or
Just to play my worries away
You're all the things I've got to remember
You're shying away
I'll be coming for you anyway
Take on me, take me on (Take on me, take on me)
I'll be gone In a day (Take me on, take on me)
I'll be gone In a day (Take me on, take on me)