Something In The Way (si) · Nirvana

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21-27, and 5 more places -- 83.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SOMETHING IN THE WAY (SI) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 4 sections: 45 keep time, 1 is a fill, 9 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Something In The Way (si)?

100 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 (si) hard to play on drums?

28 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Something In The Way (si)?

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

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