Waiting For The Turning Point · Superjoint Ritual

57 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 1:18 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
1:18
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 28-30 and 49-51 -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
WAITING FOR THE TURNING POINT · BAR 12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 18, 25, 26 and 10 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 9 sections: 26 keep time, 16 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-17.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGQBMJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waiting For The Turning Point?

175 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 Waiting For The Turning Point hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 1:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Waiting For The Turning Point?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 18, 25, 26 and 10 more.

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