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Cupid De Locke · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 6 OF 11
Groove C -- Part C
48 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cupid De Locke on drums

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

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
28/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-36, snare through bars 37-44, silence through bars 45-46 and kick and crashes through bars 47-62.

The beat

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.

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CC |ggXgggXgggXgggXg|
BD |x---------------|
Cupid De Locke -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 19-62 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED