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All Apologies (MTV Unplugged) · Nirvana

EXERCISE 18 OF 18
Play the whole song with the record
89 / 92 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All Apologies (MTV Unplugged) on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-50 and ride through bars 51-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-30, 51-53 and 55-56, and 1 more place -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
All Apologies (MTV Unplugged) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 60 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is All Apologies (MTV Unplugged)?

109 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 All Apologies (MTV Unplugged) hard to play on drums?

55 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in All Apologies (MTV Unplugged)?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 60 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED