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On The Turning Away · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 34 OF 44
Fill at bar 79 and 95 (a small one)
90 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART E
PART J
PART S5
PART E
OUTRO
7 groovesQEJS5S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On The Turning Away on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-28, silence through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-105 and silence through bars 106-107.

The beat

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.

    69
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
On The Turning Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- Q, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-52 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Break 2 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED