Skeleton sheet. This chapter has the metadata block and Core / Rotation / Reference tables but has not yet been rewritten to the shape of chapter-01.md and chapter-02.md—no first-session walkthrough, no worked advancement example, no per-exercise rationale. See chapter-template.md for the shape this sheet will take when filled, and DEVELOPMENT.md “Things to do later” for the outstanding propagation work.
Session role: focus block.
Every session opens with warm-up on the current R&L Ch. 1 exercises before you work this chapter. Baseline 30-min session: ~7–8 min warm-up (Ch. 1) → ~15 min focus (this chapter) → ~5–6 min application → ~2 min cool-down. Full detail in approach.md §6.
Seventh chapter of Stage 6 (approach.md §5). R&L defines the concept plainly: a turnaround is a double-bass pattern that switches your downbeat foot to an upbeat and your upbeat foot to a downbeat—the whole feel flips. This chapter has 10 Feet Only Warm-Ups that isolate the switch and 16 Beats that put it into a groove.
R&L’s own coaching for this chapter: turnarounds are powerful, so start slowly. Practise on and off the pedals—tapping the pattern on the floor away from the kit counts. Balance matters. Those three cues together are the whole coaching set for the chapter.
The bpm defaults come from the feet-only row of approach.md §4 (start 60 bpm, target ~120 bpm) for the Warm-Ups, and the 16th-note beats row (start 50 bpm, target ~110 bpm) for the Beats.
| Ex. | Section | Role | Start | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Warm-Ups | First turnaround, R-L alternating | 60 bpm | 120 bpm |
| 3 | Warm-Ups | Turnaround variant with displaced switch | 60 bpm | 120 bpm |
| 1 | Beats | First turnaround beat | 50 bpm | 110 bpm |
| 5 | Beats | Turnaround beat variant | 50 bpm | 110 bpm |
| Ex. | Section | Role | Start | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Warm-Ups | Turnaround with triplet inserts | 60 bpm | 120 bpm |
| 8 | Warm-Ups | Turnaround with doubled beat | 60 bpm | 120 bpm |
| 9 | Beats | Longer 4-bar turnaround beat | 50 bpm | 110 bpm |
| 15 | Beats | Turnaround with triplet embellishments | 50 bpm | 110 bpm |
Warm-Ups 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10 and Beats 2–4, 6–8, 10–14, 16 are the remaining material. Sample when the core list feels stale or when your ear points at a specific pattern.
Log this chapter’s work with the exercise number prefixed by 21. and the section identifier—for example 21.w1 70 bpm 15 min pass balanced for Warm-Ups exercise 1, or 21.b1 70 bpm 5 min near losing-feel for Beats exercise 1. See approach.md §8.