Sliver · Nirvana

73 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 25-27, and 8 more places -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SLIVER · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 5 sections: 65 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-67.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFAGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sliver?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sliver hard to play on drums?

62 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sliver?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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