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Cut The Curtains · Billy Talent

EXERCISE 10 OF 41
Groove F -- Outro
83 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cut The Curtains on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-24, snare through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-36, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-113 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 33-71 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 83-89 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-115 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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