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A Letter To Elise (The Cure cover) · blink-182

EXERCISE 3 OF 30
Groove B -- Part B
44 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART B
PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFBJS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Letter To Elise (The Cure cover) on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-51, ride through bars 52-55, snare through bars 56-59, silence through bars 60-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 39-41 and 43-46, and 8 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    50
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-x---------x---x-----------|
A Letter To Elise (The Cure cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 63.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-53 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Letter To Elise (The Cure cover)?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is A Letter To Elise (The Cure cover) hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A Letter To Elise (The Cure cover)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 63.

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