Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From the Team) · Taking Back Sunday

161 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 89-125 -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
CUTE WITHOUT THE 'E' (CUT FROM THE TEAM) · BARS 89-90
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 48, 72, 80, 126, 127 and 5 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 126-128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 135-136 · LANDS ON BAR 137 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 10 sections: 130 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-125.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBKFQI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From the Team)?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From the Team) hard to play on drums?

54 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From the Team)?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 48, 72, 80, 126, 127 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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