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Cupid · Jack Stauber

Cupid · Jack Stauber
EXERCISE 8 OF 12
Groove E
71 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cupid on drums

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

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
36/100

hi-hat through bars 1-58, kick and crashes through bars 59-62, snare through bars 63-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-75.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Cupid -- 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 11 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 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED