Curse These Metal Hands · Lovejoy

90 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 26-31 and 66-72, and 4 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
CURSE THESE METAL HANDS · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 25, 41, 49, 65, 73 and 7 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 65 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

INTRO
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFLRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Curse These Metal Hands?

124 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 Curse These Metal Hands hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Curse These Metal Hands?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 25, 41, 49, 65, 73 and 7 more.

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