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D-7 · Nirvana

EXERCISE 23 OF 33
Join Chorus to Part M (bars 85-87)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART M
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLCVMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play D-7 on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-49, hi-hat through bars 50-60, snare through bars 61-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-77, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-60 and 62-64, and 8 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
D-7 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 16, 32, 44, 45, 69 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- L, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part C -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 85-100 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is D-7?

125 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 D-7 hard to play on drums?

63 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in D-7?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 16, 32, 44, 45, 69 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED