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Rape Me (D standard) · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 24 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGS1ES6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rape Me (D standard) on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29, snare through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45 and toms through bars 46-47, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 30-37 and 58-65 -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Rape Me (D standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 29, 46, 47, 57 and 73.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-30 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-39 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-50 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rape Me (D standard)?

106 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 Rape Me (D standard) hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rape Me (D standard)?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 29, 46, 47, 57 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED