The Curse Of Curves · Cute Is What We Aim For

115 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 41-48 and 57-71, and 4 more places -- 57.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
THE CURSE OF CURVES · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 72, 96, 100 and 104.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 11 sections: 82 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-88.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFBDGS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Curse Of Curves?

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 Curse Of Curves hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Curse Of Curves?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 72, 96, 100 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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