Cure · Metallica

140 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 26 and 30, and 20 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 114 BPM
CURE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 24, 27, 28, 36, 49 and 13 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 83-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 11 sections: 105 keep time, 19 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGOBLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cure?

114 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?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 24, 27, 28, 36, 49 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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