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Smells Like Teen Spirit (Remaster) · Nirvana

EXERCISE 22 OF 26
Groove L -- Outro 2
129 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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 · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smells Like Teen Spirit (Remaster) on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
69/100

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 -- 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-|
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Remaster) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

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 27 minutes.
  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. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Smells Like Teen Spirit (Remaster)?

117 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 (Remaster) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Smells Like Teen Spirit (Remaster)?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED