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Cure · Metallica

EXERCISE 12 OF 40
Groove F
108 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cure on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26, toms through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32 and toms through bars 33-36, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 36-65 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-95 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-114 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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