Curmudgeon · Nirvana

91 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 41-43, and 3 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 121 BPM
CURMUDGEON · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 22, 26, 30, 44 and 4 more.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 8 sections: 69 keep time, 10 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-63.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHCNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Curmudgeon?

121 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Curmudgeon 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Curmudgeon?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 22, 26, 30, 44 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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