My Curse · Killswitch Engage

230 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 174 BPM, 4:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 36 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
MY CURSE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 32, 38, 44, 47, 50, 56 and 21 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 16 sections: 75 keep time, 27 are fills, 96 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-142.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART Y
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBEMYS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Curse?

174 BPM, in 3/4, 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 My Curse hard to play on drums?

52 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in My Curse?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 32, 38, 44, 47, 50, 56 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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