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Lounge Act · Nirvana

EXERCISE 8 OF 28
Fill at bar 29, 51, 85 and 87 (a small one)
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PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCLIDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lounge Act on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-53, ride through bars 54-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-92.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 18-71 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

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