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Turkish March · Mozart

Turkish March · Mozart
EXERCISE 5 OF 37
Groove M -- Part M
60 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART M
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Turkish March on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-45 and ride through bars 46-49, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Turkish March -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- K, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-69 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 102-108 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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