The Man Who Sold The World (Live and Loud) · Nirvana

132 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-29, 52-56 and 58-59, and 9 more places -- 54.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD (LIVE AND LOUD) · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 21, 34, 51, 57, 64 and 8 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 8 sections: 99 keep time, 14 are fills, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-131.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
6 groovesHEDS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Man Who Sold The World (Live and Loud)?

127 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 The Man Who Sold The World (Live and Loud) hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 The Man Who Sold The World (Live and Loud)?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 21, 34, 51, 57, 64 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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