On The Turning Away · Pink Floyd

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-70, 72-74 and 76-78, and 7 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ON THE TURNING AWAY · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24 and 16 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 8 sections: 57 keep time, 22 are fills, 13 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-44.

PART E
PART J
PART S5
PART E
OUTRO
7 groovesQEJS5S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On The Turning Away?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 On The Turning Away 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 On The Turning Away?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24 and 16 more.

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