The Cure drum tabs
22 charts, 86-165 BPM. Each one is read from a real score: play it along to the record, slow it down, or take the practice course under it.
MOST PLAYED
- CHARTS
- 22
- TEMPO
- 86-165 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 2,780
- WITH A COURSE
- 19 of 22
- USUAL KEY
- A minor
EVERY THE CURE CHART
- Boys Don't Cry165 BPM · 105 BARS · BEGINNER
- Just Like Heaven151 BPM · 130 BARS · BEGINNER
- A Forest104 BPM · 97 BARS · BEGINNER
- Friday I'm in Love136 BPM · 117 BARS
- Lovesong140 BPM · 122 BARS · BEGINNER
- Lullaby94 BPM · 97 BARS · INTERMEDIATE
- Pictures Of You86 BPM · 157 BARS · BEGINNER
- Fascination Street100 BPM · 121 BARS · INTERMEDIATE
- Play For Today160 BPM · 141 BARS · BEGINNER
- Three Imaginary Boys160 BPM · 133 BARS
- Push150 BPM · 87 BARS
- The Figurehead120 BPM · 170 BARS
- Seventeen Seconds114 BPM · 110 BARS
- Sinking142 BPM · 166 BARS
- Hot, Hot, Hot!!!112 BPM · 74 BARS
- The Walk132 BPM · 105 BARS
- Never Enough101 BPM · 115 BARS
- The End Of The World120 BPM · 115 BARS
- Wrong Number121 BPM · 175 BARS
- Taking Off147 BPM · 111 BARS
- One Hundred Years133 BPM · 216 BARS
- Friday I'm In Love135 BPM · 116 BARS
LEARNING THE CURE ON DRUMS
22 The Cure drum parts are transcribed here, 2,780 bars of music in total, filed under new wave, alternative, alternative rock and post punk. Every one of them is a chart read from a real score rather than a tab somebody typed out: the notes are where the score put them, the tempo is the record’s own, and the page plays the recording underneath while you read.
Nothing here asks you to play it at full speed on the first pass. Take any chart down to half tempo, loop the four bars that will not come clean, and bring it back up. 19 of these 22 songs also have a practice course under them: the part broken into the few things actually different about it, one at a time, ending with you playing the whole song against the record.
A good place to start is "Pictures Of You" at 86 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Hot, Hot, Hot!!!" at 74 bars, the shortest. Sheet music, tab, MIDI and MusicXML download from every chart if you would rather read it away from the screen.
QUESTIONS
How many The Cure drum tabs are there?
22 The Cure drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 19 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are The Cure songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 86 to 165 BPM. The slowest is "Pictures Of You" at 86 BPM, and the shortest is "Hot, Hot, Hot!!!" at 74 bars, which makes either a reasonable place to start. Every chart also has a simplified version with the hi-hat pulled back and the fills written as eighths on the snare.
What key are most The Cure songs in?
Most often A minor, E minor and A major. The catalogue files them under new wave, alternative, alternative rock and post punk.