Cupid De Locke · Smashing Pumpkins

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:40 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 26-29 and 47-62 -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
CUPID DE LOCKE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 8 sections: 55 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-62.

CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesABCS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cupid De Locke?

92 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 De Locke hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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