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Smells like teen spirit · Slipknot & Static X

Smells like teen spirit · Slipknot & Static X
EXERCISE 14 OF 44
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 5-19)
73 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART W
CHORUS 4
7 groovesDLWOAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smells like teen spirit on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-31, snare through bars 32-44, toms through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 33-35, and 5 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-------|
BD |x-----xx----x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Smells like teen spirit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 14, 22, 45, 46, 47, 50 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 5-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 30-41 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Smells like teen spirit?

120 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 Smells like teen spirit hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 14, 22, 45, 46, 47, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED