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Smells like teen spirit live · Nirvana

EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Groove E -- Part E
56 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEFLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smells like teen spirit live on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-40, snare through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-76, snare through bars 77-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-128, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 33-43 and 69-79, and 2 more places -- 39.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x--x----x-xx--x-|
Smells like teen spirit live -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 32, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 8 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-133 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Smells like teen spirit live?

118 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 Smells like teen spirit live hard to play on drums?

59 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Smells like teen spirit live?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 32, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED