Old Age · Nirvana

133 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 36 and 38, and 16 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
OLD AGE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 10, 22, 26, 35, 43 and 15 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 9 sections: 95 keep time, 21 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-118.

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

Questions

What BPM is Old Age?

128 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 Old Age hard to play on drums?

60 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 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 Old Age?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 10, 22, 26, 35, 43 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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