Turn Me Loose · Loverboy

116 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-52, 56 and 58, and 3 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 119 BPM
TURN ME LOOSE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 68, 75, 76, 92, 108 and 2 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 7 sections: 97 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-58.

PART A
VERSE
VERSE 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCLAKO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Turn Me Loose?

119 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 Me Loose hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Me Loose?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 68, 75, 76, 92, 108 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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