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All Apologies · Nirvana

EXERCISE 22 OF 31
Join Chorus to Part N (bars 63-65)
91 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART N
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
5 groovesENBOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All Apologies on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-105.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- N, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 11 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-93 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 87-104 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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