Cure · Alien Stage

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 27-29 and 31-32, and 7 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
CURE · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 22, 26 and 12 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 11 sections: 51 keep time, 18 are fills, 4 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-21.

PART F
PART G
CHORUS
PART S6
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesIGS6FJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cure?

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 Cure hard to play on drums?

43 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cure?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 22, 26 and 12 more.

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