Been a Son · Nirvana

70 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 22-29 and 55-62 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BEEN A SON · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 21, 30, 38, 46, 54 and 2 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 8 sections: 55 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART F
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Been a Son?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Been a Son hard to play on drums?

63 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Been a Son?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 21, 30, 38, 46, 54 and 2 more.

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