Curing Uncurable Boredom · Tearjerker

36 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 92 BPM, 1:57 of playing on crash, ride, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 14 and 16, and 4 more places -- 83.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
CURING UNCURABLE BOREDOM · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 2 sections: 36 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-36.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Curing Uncurable Boredom?

92 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Curing Uncurable Boredom hard to play on drums?

40 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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