Please Don't Turn Me On · The Artful Dodger

96 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Electronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 34-36, and 7 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 133 BPM
PLEASE DON'T TURN ME ON · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 64, 88 and 96.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 96
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 7 sections: 75 keep time, 5 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHDJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Please Don't Turn Me On?

133 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 Please Don't Turn Me On hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Please Don't Turn Me On?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 64, 88 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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