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Swap Meet · Nirvana

EXERCISE 9 OF 21
Groove H
87 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Swap Meet on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, ride through bars 26-27, snare through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-57, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Swap Meet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED