The Man Who Sold The World · Nirvana

100 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-25, 28-29 and 52-55, and 11 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 30 and 12 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 2-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 18 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-20.

PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
6 groovesIFNS2S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Man Who Sold The World?

114 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 hard to play on drums?

59 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?

100 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 The Man Who Sold The World?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 30 and 12 more.

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