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Lithium · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lithium on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-60, hi-hat through bars 61-78, ride through bars 79-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-129.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |X---------------|
Lithium -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-64 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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