Turkish March · Mozart

113 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Electronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 58-64 and 90-96, and 2 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TURKISH MARCH · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13 and 28 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 65 keep time, 34 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-64.

CHORUS
PART K
PART M
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBKMTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Turkish March?

140 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 Turkish March hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Turkish March?

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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