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Cute Thing · Car Seat Headrest

EXERCISE 9 OF 83
Groove I -- Part I
28 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART S17
16 groovesDNS17AGI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cute Thing on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-17, toms through bars 18-24, ride through bars 25-37, silence through bars 38-50 and snare through bars 51-73, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 16 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Cute Thing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 24 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- D -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, V -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 7-89 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-61 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-53 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cute Thing?

114 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 Cute Thing 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Cute Thing?

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 24 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED