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Scoff · Nirvana

EXERCISE 16 OF 25
Groove H -- Outro 2
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CHORUS
PART B
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scoff on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, snare through bars 45-48, toms through bars 49-60, hi-hat through bars 61-84 and snare through bars 85-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 49-60 and 89-116 -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----f-------f---|
T1 |--------x-------|
T2 |x-x---x---x-----|
FT |x-x---x-x-x-----|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-----|
Scoff -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 30, 34, 36, 44, 68 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-29 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-145 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 43-52 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Scoff?

145 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 Scoff hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Scoff?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 30, 34, 36, 44, 68 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED