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Cupid Carries A Gun · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 13 OF 33
Run B2 · Part B (bars 45-60)
108 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABHEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cupid Carries A Gun on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-36, toms through bars 37-76, kick and crashes through bars 77-83, snare through bars 84-100 and toms through bars 101-104, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 37-43 and 61-76, and 3 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-x-----x---|
FT |x-------x-x-x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Cupid Carries A Gun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 44, 84, 92, 108 and 144.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 45-88 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 97-112 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cupid Carries A Gun?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Cupid Carries A Gun hard to play on drums?

46 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, 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 Cupid Carries A Gun?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 44, 84, 92, 108 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED