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Endless, Nameless · Nirvana

EXERCISE 6 OF 66
Groove L -- Part L
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0 / 66 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART L, PART M
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART M
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART AN
PART AU
PART AZ
CHORUS 5
PART BT
13 groovesEBTFANL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Endless, Nameless on drums

203 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 6:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
93/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-20, ride through bars 21-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-79, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 18 and 20, and 9 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    158
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |--x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------------|
SD |------------------x-------------------------------x-------------|
BD |--x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-----|
Endless, Nameless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Endless, Nameless?

124 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 Endless, Nameless hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Endless, Nameless?

3 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED