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Something In The Way (si) · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Something In The Way (si) on drums

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

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
28/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-28, silence through bars 29-45 and ride through bars 46-77.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Something In The Way (si) -- 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 6 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 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED