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Turn Me Loose · Loverboy

EXERCISE 14 OF 37
Join Verse to Part D (bars 58-60)
87 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, PART D
PART A
VERSE
PART D
VERSE 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCLAKO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Turn Me Loose on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-68, ride through bars 69-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-116.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Turn Me Loose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-69 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Verse 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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