Taking Off · The Cure

111 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 49-55 and 57-63 -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 147 BPM
TAKING OFF · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 40, 44, 48 and 10 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 9 sections: 77 keep time, 16 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFAMRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Taking Off?

147 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 Taking Off hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom 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 Taking Off?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 40, 44, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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