Turn The Other Way · Avenged Sevenfold

199 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 5:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 148-150, 152 and 154, and 9 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 141 BPM
TURN THE OTHER WAY · BAR 180
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22 and 11 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 17 sections: 137 keep time, 17 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 177-199.

PART G
PART V
PART AB
PART AM
PART AR
PART V
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBSAMVDAB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Turn The Other Way?

141 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Other Way hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Other Way?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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