Territorial Pissings · Nirvana

103 bars, 6:26, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
6:26
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 23-37 and 39-54, and 1 more place -- 59.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 64 BPM
TERRITORIAL PISSINGS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 6 sections: 87 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-54.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDGS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Territorial Pissings?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Territorial Pissings hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Territorial Pissings?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

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