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Seventeen Seconds · The Cure

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove A -- Chorus
0 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 70 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seventeen Seconds on drums

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

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
29/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------------|
Seventeen Seconds -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 32-80 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED