Sappy · Nirvana

106 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 28 and 30, and 24 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SAPPY · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 27, 53 and 69.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 6 sections: 85 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-51.

PART C
CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sappy?

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 Sappy 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sappy?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 27, 53 and 69.

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