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Old Age · Nirvana

EXERCISE 5 OF 33
Fill at bar 22, 47, 55 and 4 more (a small one)
80 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Old Age on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-76, snare through bars 77-85, hi-hat through bars 86-131 and kick and crashes through bars 132-133.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- H, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 6-27 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-132 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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