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Cut The Cord · Shinedown

EXERCISE 11 OF 29
Join Chorus to Break (bars 19-21)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesCBS1S10S4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cut The Cord on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, silence through bars 21-23, snare through bars 24-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-43, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Cut The Cord -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-44 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 47-68 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED