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Dumb · Nirvana

EXERCISE 3 OF 20
Groove E -- Outro 2
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dumb on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-69.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |r---r---r---r---|
BD |x-------------x-|
Dumb -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 7-38 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-69 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED