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Beeswax · Nirvana

EXERCISE 4 OF 17
Fill at bar 22, 38, 54 and 2 more
87 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART F, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beeswax on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-46, ride through bars 47-54, hi-hat through bars 55-86, ride through bars 87-94 and hi-hat through bars 95-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-30, 39-46 and 55-62, and 2 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    23               24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------x---|------------|
HH |----o---o-------|o-----o-----|
SD |----x---x---x---|x-f-f-------|
T1 |----------------|--------xx--|
T2 |----------------|----------xg|
BD |x-----x---x-----|------------|
Beeswax -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED