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CUBErt · System of a Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play CUBErt on drums

84 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 1:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, toms through bars 33-44, ride through bars 45-52 and toms through bars 53-56, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 3 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16           17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |------------|x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----|------------|
T1 |x-x-x---x---|------------|
T2 |-x-x-x-x-x--|------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxx--|x--x--x--x--|
CUBErt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 44 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-65 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 61-73 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is CUBErt?

140 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 CUBErt hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 CUBErt?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 44 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED