Aneurysm · Nirvana

153 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 8 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
ANEURYSM · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 40, 62 and 6 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 7 sections: 105 keep time, 12 are fills, 26 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-61.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEJLOC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aneurysm?

145 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 Aneurysm hard to play on drums?

59 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Aneurysm?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 40, 62 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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