Sinking · The Cure

166 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-68, 70-100 and 102-140, and 2 more places -- 96.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 142 BPM
SINKING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 141.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars: 164 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-140.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sinking?

142 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 Sinking hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sinking?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 141.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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