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Come As You Are · Nirvana

EXERCISE 10 OF 23
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 32-34)
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PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Come As You Are on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-25, snare through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-57, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 10 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    58               59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|x-x---x---x---x-|
Come As You Are -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 49, 85 and 105.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-46 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Come As You Are?

120 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 Come As You Are hard to play on drums?

61 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Come As You Are?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 49, 85 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED