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Cure · Alien Stage
EXERCISE 15 OF 39
Part G into Chorus with the record (bars 20-27)
58 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cure on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-41, silence through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72 and silence through bars 73-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Cure -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 39-73 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED