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Tourette's · Nirvana

EXERCISE 5 OF 13
Groove G -- Part G
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0 / 13 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tourette's on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:33
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-28, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Tourette's -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 16-47 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED