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

EXERCISE 14 OF 32
Join Part E to Chorus (bars 20-22)
103 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
6 groovesHEDS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Man Who Sold The World (Live and Loud) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-8, ride through bars 9-21, snare through bars 22-33, hi-hat through bars 34-38 and ride through bars 39-51, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    76
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
The Man Who Sold The World (Live and Loud) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- H, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-22 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 32-76 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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