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Turn It To Praise · Seph Schlueter

Turn It To Praise · Seph Schlueter
EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove A -- Chorus
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BREAK
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Turn It To Praise on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-19, silence through bars 20-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-66.

The beat

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.

    11
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x-----------|
Turn It To Praise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-66 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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