Swap Meet · Nirvana

110 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 13 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 137 BPM
SWAP MEET · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 25, 33, 57, 65, 68 and 6 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 7 sections: 85 keep time, 12 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-96.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Swap Meet?

137 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 Swap Meet hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Swap Meet?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 25, 33, 57, 65, 68 and 6 more.

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