Three Imaginary Boys · The Cure

133 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 27 more places -- 73.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THREE IMAGINARY BOYS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 4 sections: 122 keep time, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-80.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Three Imaginary Boys?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Three Imaginary Boys hard to play on drums?

25 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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