Mr. Moustache · Nirvana

137 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-19, and 18 more places -- 58.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 177 BPM
MR. MOUSTACHE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 32 and 22 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 9 sections: 92 keep time, 28 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
OUTRO
6 groovesCFJAS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Moustache?

177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mr. Moustache hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mr. Moustache?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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