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Come As You Are - Nirvana · Jokker

EXERCISE 5 OF 16
Groove E
49 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Come As You Are - Nirvana on drums

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.

46 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
46/100

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 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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 43-79 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED