Curiosity Killed The Cat · GUARDIAN

11 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 0:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4 and 11 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars across 2 sections: 8 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

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

Questions

What BPM is Curiosity Killed The Cat?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Curiosity Killed The Cat hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

11 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Curiosity Killed The Cat?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 11 BARS ANALYSED
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