Lithium · Nirvana

129 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 33-47 and 79-97 -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 123 BPM
LITHIUM · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 48, 59, 60, 76, 98 and 3 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 9 sections: 107 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-97.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBJDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lithium?

123 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 Lithium hard to play on drums?

56 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Lithium?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 48, 59, 60, 76, 98 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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