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Serve The Servants · Nirvana

EXERCISE 20 OF 25
Fill at bar 67 (a small one)
97 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Serve The Servants on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, ride through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-11 and ride through bars 12-13, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Serve The Servants -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-36 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED