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Turning Point · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 3 OF 61
Groove K (a two-bar phrase)
41 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART R
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGRAEAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Turning Point on drums

140 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-34, snare through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-38, snare through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-42, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 48-51, and 10 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Turning Point -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 3, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-73 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Turning Point?

186 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Turning Point 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Turning Point?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 3, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED