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Endless, Nameless (Live At Paramount Theatre) · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove M -- Chorus
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PART B
PART C
PART G
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART G
12 groovesMBCGS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Endless, Nameless (Live At Paramount Theatre) on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-22, hi-hat through bars 23-27, snare through bars 28-32, hi-hat through bars 33-47 and ride through bars 48-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-66, 80-83 and 85, and 4 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Endless, Nameless (Live At Paramount Theatre) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 26, 30, 38, 42, 50, 53 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- M, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-143 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-104 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-102 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-70 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Endless, Nameless (Live At Paramount Theatre)?

150 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 Endless, Nameless (Live At Paramount Theatre) hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Endless, Nameless (Live At Paramount Theatre)?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 26, 30, 38, 42, 50, 53 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED