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Years in Turmoil · Torture

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EXERCISE 16 OF 46
Groove I
25 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART AS
PART S7
OUTRO
BREAK 4
9 groovesHS9ASCEA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Years in Turmoil on drums

135 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
88/100

ride through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, snare through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-45 and ride through bars 46-49, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11 and 13-14 -- 3.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Years in Turmoil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 16, 17 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CE -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AS -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Years in Turmoil?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Years in Turmoil hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Years in Turmoil?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 16, 17 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED