The Cure (Rock Version) · Olivia rodrigo

156 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 14 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
THE CURE (ROCK VERSION) · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 40, 44, 48, 52, 60 and 14 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 9 sections: 122 keep time, 20 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-75.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJHBUP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Cure (Rock Version)?

144 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 (Rock Version) hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 (Rock Version)?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 40, 44, 48, 52, 60 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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