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Boys Don't Cry · The Cure

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 16 PASSED · 71 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boys Don't Cry on drums

105 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-100 and toms through bars 101-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 15 more places -- 69.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Boys Don't Cry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 32, 56, 78 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 71-79 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Boys Don't Cry?

165 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 hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 32, 56, 78 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED