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Slow Turning · John Hiatt

Slow Turning · John Hiatt
EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove D -- Outro
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OUTRO
4 groovesDIS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slow Turning on drums

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

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-120.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Slow Turning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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