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Push · The Cure

EXERCISE 13 OF 33
2-bar fill at bar 15
60 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S7
PART S1
PART S7
CHORUS
PART S9
OUTRO
11 groovesHS11S1S9S7+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Push on drums

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.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
36/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-73, silence through bars 74-78 and toms through bars 79-87.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Push -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- H, F (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-14 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part S7 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S9 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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