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Milk It · Nirvana

EXERCISE 7 OF 22
Groove E -- Part E
111 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIEBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Milk It on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, snare through bars 37-56, hi-hat through bars 57-68, snare through bars 69-88, hi-hat through bars 89-104 and snare through bars 105-133.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 9 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |x---x---x-x---x-|
Milk It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 40, 44 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- I, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-31 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-133 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Milk It?

136 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 Milk It hard to play on drums?

50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Milk It?

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 40, 44 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED