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Fascination Street · The Cure

EXERCISE 3 OF 12
Groove A
93 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fascination Street on drums

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

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, silence through bars 26-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-121.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-x-x|
SD |----x-------x-x-|
BD |xx----xx-xx-----|
Fascination Street -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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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