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Come As You Are (Standard Tunings) · Nirvana

EXERCISE 25 OF 26
Run I2 · Outro (bars 87-97)
101 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Come As You Are (Standard Tunings) 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.

53 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
53/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-31, toms through bars 32-33, ride through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57 and snare through bars 58-83, 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 -- 39.2% 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---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|x-x---x---x---x-|
Come As You Are (Standard Tunings) -- 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 86.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E, I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-25 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-50 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-90 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED