Cut Lips · Weatherday

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-43, 50-52 and 71-72, and 4 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CUT LIPS · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 44, 48, 76, 84 and 92.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 7 sections: 61 keep time, 6 are fills, 48 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-26.

PART C
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLCIS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cut Lips?

90 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 Cut Lips hard to play on drums?

39 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?

124 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cut Lips?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 44, 48, 76, 84 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →