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The Curse Of Curves · Cute Is What We Aim For

The Curse Of Curves · Cute Is What We Aim For
EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove F -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Curse Of Curves on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and ride through bars 49-54, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
The Curse Of Curves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- F, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 13-28 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-73 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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