Lounge Act · Nirvana

92 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 11 and 13, and 8 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
LOUNGE ACT · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 31, 51, 53, 67, 85 and 3 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 5 sections: 67 keep time, 9 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-49.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCLIDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lounge Act?

152 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 Lounge Act hard to play on drums?

57 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lounge Act?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 31, 51, 53, 67, 85 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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