Talk To Me · Nirvana

96 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

96

LENGTH

2:57

DIFFICULTY

57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-58, snare through bars 59-64, hi-hat through bars 65-88 and snare through bars 89-96.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 17-23 and 25, and 8 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 32, 33, 34, 40 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 34 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Bars 26-41 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Bars 46-59 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 61-84 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.