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

EXERCISE 28 OF 40
2-bar fill at bar 135
141 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBKFQI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From the Team) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, snare through bars 73-134 and ride through bars 135-152, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    89               90
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxx|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x-x---------|----x-x-----x---|
Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From the Team) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- K, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-49 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-82 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-129 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-142 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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