Tourette's · Nirvana

61 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 1:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:33
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15 and 17, and 3 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
TOURETTE'S · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 7 sections: 39 keep time, 1 is a fill, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tourette's?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tourette's hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 1:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Tourette's?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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