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Heart-Shaped Box™ · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heart-Shaped Box™ on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-47, toms through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-87 and toms through bars 88-89, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----X-------X---|----r---r---r---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-------------|
Heart-Shaped Box™ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A, F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 28-88 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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