Turn It To Praise · Seph Schlueter

66 bars, 3:34, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 7-18 and 27, and 4 more places -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 74 BPM
TURN IT TO PRAISE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 57 and 58.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 8 sections: 45 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-48.

BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Turn It To Praise?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Turn It To Praise hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Turn It To Praise?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 57 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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