Heathers · Surf Curse

112 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-18, 28-32 and 34-48, and 5 more places -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
HEATHERS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 49.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 9 sections: 94 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-111.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDGHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heathers?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Heathers hard to play on drums?

53 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Heathers?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 49.

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