# Turn the Beat Around: A Drummer's Guide to Playing "Backbeats" on 1 & 3

- **Brand:** Alfred Music
- **Price:** $19.99
- **Catalog:** alfred
- **Retailer:** alfred
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- **Availability:** In stock

## Summary

Instructional drumming guide titled 'Turn the Beat Around: A Drummer's Guide to Playing Backbeats on 1 & 3' by Paul Wertico, featuring a cover with musical notation and a snare drum image.

## Description

Habits and traditions are often hard to change, but discovering new and creative ways of rearranging and rethinking established norms is what distinguishes a great drummer and provides endless challenge and possibilities. Turn the Beat Around breaks decades-old routine by examining "backbeats" in a whole new light, asking the questions: "Why are backbeats always played on beats 2 & 4?" and "What about playing them on beats 1 & 3?" By delving into this inquiry, Paul Wertico provides drummers with innovative ways of expanding groove vocabulary, solidifying time, and mastering coordination and limb independence. Wertico has even coined a new word for these types of reversed beats--- frontbeats .

## Variants

- **In stock:** 1 of 1

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## Categories

- **Categories:** Digital Download

## Additional Attributes

- **handle:** turn-the-beat-around-a-drummer-s-guide-to-playing-backbeats-on-1-3-00-pb-0001863
- **weight:** 0.88
- **created at:** 2026-07-03T07:11:25-07:00
- **updated at:** 2026-08-03T23:13:14-07:00
- **variant sku:** 00-PB-0001863
- **weight unit:** lb
- **product type:** Digital Download
- **published at:** 2026-08-03T18:51:25-07:00
- **published scope:** web
- **template suffix:** digital-sheet-music
- **requires shipping:** false

## Enrichment

- **Type:** instructional book
- **Type Synonyms:** educational book, music guide, tutorial book
- **Tags:** sheet music, drumming guide, percussion instruction, printed text
- **Styles:** educational
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > Print Books
- **Genre:** Arts, Education, Hobbies & interests, Music
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Canonical Brand:** Alfred Music

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