The Curse · Audioslave

154 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-28, 30-38 and 40-54, and 5 more places -- 71.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE CURSE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 39, 63, 73, 83, 84 and 4 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 83-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 7 sections: 26 keep time, 10 are fills, 100 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-111.

CHORUS
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS2HEBS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Curse?

128 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 Curse hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Curse?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 39, 63, 73, 83, 84 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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