Lullaby · The Cure

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 9 more places -- 85.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 94 BPM
LULLABY · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 64, 80 and 88.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 2 sections: 83 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-39.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lullaby?

94 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 Lullaby hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Lullaby?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 64, 80 and 88.

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