Serve The Servants · Nirvana

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-9 and 12-13, and 11 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SERVE THE SERVANTS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 3, 35, 39, 63, 67, 97 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 83 keep time, 12 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-25.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHFDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Serve The Servants?

120 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 Serve The Servants hard to play on drums?

61 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Serve The Servants?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 3, 35, 39, 63, 67, 97 and 5 more.

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