Marigold · Nirvana

56 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 23-33 and 41-47 -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 79 BPM
MARIGOLD · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 22.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-33.

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

Questions

What BPM is Marigold?

79 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 Marigold hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Marigold?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 22.

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