The Figurehead · The Cure

170 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-169 -- 98.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE FIGUREHEAD · BARS 2-3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars: 169 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-169.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Figurehead?

120 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 Figurehead hard to play on drums?

36 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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