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.

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

TEMPO

145 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

153

LENGTH

4:13

DIFFICULTY

59/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, toms through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-42, and 23 more changes after that.

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.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |----x--x----x--x|----x--x-xxx----|
T1 |----------------|------------xx--|
FT |----------------|--------------xx|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x-x-------|

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

It cuts the song into 30 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 42-111 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 37-111 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.