All Apologies · Nirvana

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-90 and 101-104 -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 107 BPM
ALL APOLOGIES · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 50, 54, 58 and 3 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 6 sections: 81 keep time, 10 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-90.

PART B
CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
5 groovesENBOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Apologies?

107 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 hard to play on drums?

53 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 50, 54, 58 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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