Something In The Way · Nirvana

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21-26, and 5 more places -- 79.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 102 BPM
SOMETHING IN THE WAY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 4 sections: 49 keep time, 1 is a fill, 8 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-75.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Something In The Way?

102 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 Something In The Way hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Something In The Way?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

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