Turn the Page · Metallica

111 bars, 5:52, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-18, 20 and 22-24, and 14 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
TURN THE PAGE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 19, 21, 25, 29, 30, 34 and 21 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 8 sections: 74 keep time, 27 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-13.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCRBMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Turn the Page?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 the Page hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 the Page?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 19, 21, 25, 29, 30, 34 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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