the cure · Olivia Rodrigo

52 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 1:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
1:26
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-26, 29-34 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
THE CURE · BARS 23-24
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 28, 36 and 52.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 52
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 5 sections: 40 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is the cure?

145 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 the cure hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 1:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick 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 the cure?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 28, 36 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
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