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Big Cheese · Nirvana

EXERCISE 14 OF 49
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
74 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART E
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART E
PART G
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
8 groovesKEGBD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big Cheese on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom 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
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, ride through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-68, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47 and 49-51, and 8 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
HH |--o-o---o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--xx-x---xx--x-|
Big Cheese -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 42, 43, 44 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- K -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-70 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 29-57 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-73 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-89 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Big Cheese?

122 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 Big Cheese 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Big Cheese?

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 42, 43, 44 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED