Smells Like Teen Spirit · Nirvana

141 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

113 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

141

LENGTH

4:59

DIFFICULTY

67/100

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 song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 33-43 and 69-79, and 2 more places -- 40.6% 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-|

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 32, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 21 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 26 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
3. Through Part E and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.