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The Curse · Audioslave

EXERCISE 6 OF 22
Run S21 · Chorus (bars 2-74)
125 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 73 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS2HEBS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Curse on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bars 2-73, ride through bars 74-97, hi-hat through bars 98-111, snare through bars 112-116, silence through bars 117-128 and snare through bars 129-131, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
The Curse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 75-115 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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