Dumb · Nirvana

69 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 17-23 and 41-47 -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
DUMB · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 24, 48 and 68.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 7 sections: 53 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-38.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dumb?

115 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 Dumb hard to play on drums?

48 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dumb?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 24, 48 and 68.

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