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Verse Chorus Verse · Nirvana

EXERCISE 17 OF 33
Join Part G to Part I (bars 61-63)
92 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART I
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGILS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Verse Chorus Verse on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38, ride through bars 39-54, hi-hat through bars 55-68 and ride through bars 69-76, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 16 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 24, 54, 76, 80, 88 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- G, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-66 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-77 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Verse Chorus Verse?

130 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 Verse Chorus Verse hard to play on drums?

63 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?

107 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Verse Chorus Verse?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 24, 54, 76, 80, 88 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED