Cuts Like A Knife · Bryan Adams

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 34 and 50, and 26 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CUTS LIKE A KNIFE · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 25, 33, 37 and 7 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 9 sections: 94 keep time, 20 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-96.

PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHBVPAD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cuts Like A Knife?

100 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 Cuts Like A Knife hard to play on drums?

48 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?

127 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cuts Like A Knife?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 25, 33, 37 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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