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Please Don't Turn Me On · The Artful Dodger

Please Don't Turn Me On · The Artful Dodger
EXERCISE 3 OF 21
Groove C
58 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Please Don't Turn Me On on drums

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

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-96.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |----r--rg---r---|---xr--xg---r--x|
BD |x--x------x---x-|x--x------x-----|
Please Don't Turn Me On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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