Play For Today · The Cure

141 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-25, 27-32 and 35-40, and 11 more places -- 79% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
PLAY FOR TODAY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 68 and 110.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 2 sections: 131 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-67.

OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Play For Today?

160 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 Play For Today 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Play For Today?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 68 and 110.

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