Polly (New Wave) · Nirvana

85 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 1:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 29-31, and 2 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 196 BPM
POLLY (NEW WAVE) · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 13, 16, 40, 43, 49 and 5 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time, 11 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACFJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Polly (New Wave)?

196 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 Polly (New Wave) hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Polly (New Wave)?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 13, 16, 40, 43, 49 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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