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Something In The Way · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 7 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Something In The Way on drums

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.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-29, silence through bars 30-45, ride through bars 46-76 and kick and crashes through bars 77-78.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Something In The Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED