Beeswax · Nirvana

108 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 38, 54, 78 and 94.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 11 sections: 88 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-21.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beeswax?

149 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 Beeswax hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Beeswax?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 38, 54, 78 and 94.

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