Heart-Shaped Box™ · Nirvana

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-15, 33-47 and 69-87 -- 45.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
HEART-SHAPED BOX™ · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 30, 62, 64 and 107.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 6 sections: 94 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-87.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heart-Shaped Box™?

94 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 Heart-Shaped Box™ hard to play on drums?

55 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Heart-Shaped Box™?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 30, 62, 64 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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