Turning Point · sillyserpent

77 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 6 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
TURNING POINT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 10, 14, 18, 19, 23 and 16 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 11 sections: 40 keep time, 22 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-68.

CHORUS
PART M
PART O
PART R
PART M
PART X
PART AA
PART C
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBAJMAAR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Turning Point?

145 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 Turning Point hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Turning Point?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 10, 14, 18, 19, 23 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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