Friday I'm in Love · The Cure

117 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 53 more places -- 48.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 63, 67 and 116.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 4 sections: 109 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-112.

PART C
OUTRO
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Friday I'm in Love?

136 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 Friday I'm in Love hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 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 Friday I'm in Love?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 63, 67 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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