Come As You Are - Nirvana · Jokker

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

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-25 and 34-41 -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
COME AS YOU ARE - NIRVANA · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 105.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 8 sections: 53 keep time, 1 is a fill, 40 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-25.

PART C
PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Come As You Are - Nirvana?

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 - Nirvana hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 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 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Come As You Are - Nirvana?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 105.

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