Blew · Nirvana

93 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

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.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLEW · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 32, 55, 56, 79, 80 and 4 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 89-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 3 sections: 77 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-30.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blew?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Blew hard to play on drums?

64 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Blew?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 32, 55, 56, 79, 80 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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