Push · The Cure

87 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:19 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 29-31 and 33-39, and 6 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
PUSH · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 32 and 7 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 11 sections: 50 keep time, 13 are fills, 11 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-71.

PART S1
CHORUS
PART S9
OUTRO
11 groovesHS11S1S9S7+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Push?

150 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 Push hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Push?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 32 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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