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My Curse · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 6 OF 59
Groove Y -- Part Y (a two-bar phrase)
64 / 230 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Curse on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-35, hi-hat through bars 36-37, snare through bars 38-62, toms through bars 63-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-101, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
My Curse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-94 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 91-121 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 136-166 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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