Floyd The Barber · Nirvana

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 13 and 17, and 7 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
FLOYD THE BARBER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 45, 61 and 73.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 10 sections: 43 keep time, 4 are fills, 17 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGEBDK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Floyd The Barber?

98 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 Floyd The Barber hard to play on drums?

58 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Floyd The Barber?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 45, 61 and 73.

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