Breed · Nirvana

117 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-35 and 53-67, and 1 more place -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 159 BPM
BREED · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 52, 68, 76 and 4 more.

LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 11 sections: 88 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-35.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCJGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breed?

159 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Breed hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Breed?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 52, 68, 76 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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