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Boys Don't Cry (The Cure cover) · blink-182

EXERCISE 2 OF 14
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 14 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
3 groovesES2AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boys Don't Cry (The Cure cover) on drums

119 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, ride through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50 and ride through bars 51-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 12 and 16, and 18 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    8
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------|
Boys Don't Cry (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 4 times: bars 6, 34, 58 and 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Boys Don't Cry (The Cure cover)?

200 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 Boys Don't Cry (The Cure cover) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 6 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Boys Don't Cry (The Cure cover)?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 34, 58 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED