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Sliver · Nirvana

EXERCISE 9 OF 21
Groove G -- Part G
65 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFAGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sliver on drums

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

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-73.

The beat

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.

    11
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x--x--------x-----|
Sliver -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-73 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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