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Negative Creep · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove F -- Part F
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Negative Creep on drums

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

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-114.

The beat

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.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------x---------|
HH |o-o-o---o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |xxxx--x---x-----|
Negative Creep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-114 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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