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Sappy · Nirvana

EXERCISE 13 OF 16
Join Chorus to Part S4 (bars 76-78)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S4
PART C
CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sappy on drums

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.

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
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-78, silence through bars 79-83 and ride through bars 84-106.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Sappy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED