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Turkish Delight · 5th Prokurator

Turkish Delight · 5th Prokurator
EXERCISE 3 OF 12
Groove A -- Chorus
38 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Turkish Delight on drums

65 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 1:05 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:05
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 11 and 27, and 6 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Turkish Delight?

120 BPM, in 2/4, 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 Turkish Delight hard to play on drums?

58 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED