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Turn It On Again · Genesis

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 22 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesES6BADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Turn It On Again on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
42/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-38, toms through bars 39-43, hi-hat through bars 44-67, toms through bars 68-73 and silence through bars 74-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 28-31 and 34-35, and 3 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 15, 26, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Turn It On Again?

126 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 On Again hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 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 On Again?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 15, 26, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED