If I Could Turn Back Time · Cher

109 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31-36, and 12 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 13 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 19-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 62 keep time, 19 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-66.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJBPS1I+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If I Could Turn Back Time?

110 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 If I Could Turn Back Time hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in If I Could Turn Back Time?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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