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Floyd The Barber · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove C
0 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Floyd The Barber on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-----------|
SD |----x-----------|
FT |--------x-x-x---|
BD |x-------x-x-x---|
HF |--------x-------|
Floyd The Barber -- 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 25, 45, 61 and 73.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C, D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-66 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED