Negative Creep · Nirvana

114 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 11 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
NEGATIVE CREEP · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 6 sections: 103 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-114.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Negative Creep?

164 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 Negative Creep hard to play on drums?

64 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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