Cupid · Jack Stauber

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 7-9, and 14 more places -- 62.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 83 BPM
CUPID · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 3 sections: 71 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-56.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cupid?

83 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 hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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