Cut The Cord · Shinedown

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 12 more places -- 67.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 89 BPM
CUT THE CORD · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 35, 39 and 7 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 12 sections: 28 keep time, 13 are fills, 23 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-8.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesCBS1S10S4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cut The Cord?

89 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 The Cord hard to play on drums?

43 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?

81 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cut The Cord?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 35, 39 and 7 more.

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