Come As You Are (Standard Tunings) · Nirvana

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 / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 10 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
COME AS YOU ARE (STANDARD TUNINGS) · BARS 58-59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 49, 85 and 86.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 85-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 8 sections: 77 keep time, 4 are fills, 13 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-77.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEICDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Come As You Are (Standard Tunings)?

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 (Standard Tunings) hard to play on drums?

53 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 28 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 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 (Standard Tunings)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 49, 85 and 86.

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