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Been a Son · Nirvana

EXERCISE 13 OF 19
Groove F -- Part F
63 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Been a Son on drums

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

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-30, ride through bars 31-38, snare through bars 39-46 and ride through bars 47-53, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED