Slow Turning · John Hiatt

120 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-31, 34-48 and 50-80, and 2 more places -- 88.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 134 BPM
SLOW TURNING · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 49.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 4 sections: 111 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-115.

OUTRO
4 groovesDIS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Turning?

134 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 Slow Turning hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 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 Slow Turning?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 49.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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