Love Buzz (more accurate drums) · Nirvana

119 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-20 and 29-35, and 5 more places -- 79.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
LOVE BUZZ (MORE ACCURATE DRUMS) · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 64, 72, 84, 117 and 1 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 117-118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 5 sections: 107 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-116.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Buzz (more accurate drums)?

138 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 Love Buzz (more accurate drums) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Love Buzz (more accurate drums)?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 64, 72, 84, 117 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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