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Turn It Off · Paramore

EXERCISE 9 OF 57
Fill at bar 29, 33, 57 and 4 more (a small one)
46 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 4, PART AB
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART I
PART D
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART AB
OUTRO
9 groovesBDISAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Turn It Off on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-16, toms through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, snare through bars 38-45 and ride through bars 46-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 34-36, and 8 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 25, 29 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-33 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 17-26 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-38 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-69 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Turn It Off?

112 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 Turn It Off hard to play on drums?

61 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?

114 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Turn It Off?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 25, 29 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED