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Sifting · Nirvana

EXERCISE 17 OF 26
Groove J -- Part J
150 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART D
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADBHJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sifting on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-84, ride through bars 85-100, hi-hat through bars 101-136 and ride through bars 137-155, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32, 61-76 and 105-128 -- 45.3% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-o-o-|
SD |------------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x---------|
Sifting -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 84, 100, 136, 156, 157 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-41 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-61 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 99-105 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sifting?

115 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 Sifting hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sifting?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 84, 100, 136, 156, 157 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED