Turn On Your Love Light · Grateful Dead

53 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 175 BPM, 1:49 of playing on hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-7 and 12-35 -- 87.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 175 BPM
TURN ON YOUR LOVE LIGHT · BAR 4
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 4 sections: 31 keep time and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-35.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Turn On Your Love Light?

175 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Turn On Your Love Light hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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