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Seasons In The Sun · Nirvana

EXERCISE 16 OF 33
Join Break 5 to Part E (bars 38-40)
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PART D
PART E
CHORUS
BREAK 5
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIDES2S9+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seasons In The Sun on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-49, ride through bars 50-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11 and 13, and 10 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Seasons In The Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 38, 39, 49, 55, 61 and 3 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 -- D, I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-40 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-50 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Seasons In The Sun?

90 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 Seasons In The Sun hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Seasons In The Sun?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 38, 39, 49, 55, 61 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED