Seventeen Seconds · The Cure

110 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-35 and 76-110 -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
SEVENTEEN SECONDS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 3 sections: 107 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-75.

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

Questions

What BPM is Seventeen Seconds?

114 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 Seventeen Seconds hard to play on drums?

29 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 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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