Fascination Street · The Cure

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 51 more places -- 47% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FASCINATION STREET · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 115 and 119.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 3 sections: 110 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-114.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fascination Street?

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 Fascination Street hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fascination Street?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 115 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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