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Breed · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breed on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68 and ride through bars 69-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|
Breed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-45 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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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