Cut The Curtains · Billy Talent

125 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 15 and 17-22, and 10 more places -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
CUT THE CURTAINS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 108, 110, 112, 114 and 116.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 14 sections: 76 keep time, 6 are fills, 24 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-24.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBCFID+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cut The Curtains?

134 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 Curtains hard to play on drums?

49 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Curtains?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 108, 110, 112, 114 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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