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Cuts Like A Knife · Bryan Adams

EXERCISE 9 OF 50
Groove C -- Part C
75 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cuts Like A Knife on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-28, ride through bars 29-37, hi-hat through bars 38-48, ride through bars 49-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-83, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Cuts Like A Knife -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- P, Q -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-74 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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