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Turn the Page · Metallica

EXERCISE 34 OF 48
Run R1 · Part R (bars 80-89)
88 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCRBMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Turn the Page on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-63, kick and crashes through bars 64-71, hi-hat through bars 72-109 and kick and crashes through bars 110-111.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x--x--x-|
Turn the Page -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-78 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-99 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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