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Polly (New Wave) · Nirvana

EXERCISE 21 OF 31
Groove J -- Part J
80 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Polly (New Wave) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, toms through bars 57-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-85.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------x---------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x---x---x---x-|
Polly (New Wave) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-54 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 60-85 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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