Blew (Live at the paramount) · Nirvana

93 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

132 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

93

LENGTH

2:49

DIFFICULTY

66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-54, toms through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-78, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 17 more places -- 58.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x-----------x---|----x-------x---x---x-x---------|

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 54, 55, 56 and 8 more.

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.