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Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle · Nirvana

EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Groove I
51 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-18, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 12 and 17, and 25 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x--g----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 11, 16, 21, 23, 35, 36 and 19 more.

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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-103 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle?

114 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 Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle?

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 11, 16, 21, 23, 35, 36 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED