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Sinking · The Cure

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 7 PASSED · 160 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sinking on drums

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

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
27/100

kick and crashes through bar 1 and snare through bars 2-166.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
HF |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
Sinking -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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