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If I Could Turn Back Time · Cher

EXERCISE 24 OF 44
Groove P -- Part P
81 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If I Could Turn Back Time on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-72, snare through bars 73-78 and ride through bars 79-80, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
If I Could Turn Back Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-54 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-72 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 83-96 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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