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Very Ape · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDGIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Very Ape on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 2:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-14, 18-26 and 42-50 -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------xx--|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x-x-x---x-|
HF |x---------------|----------------|
Very Ape -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 33, 57 and 71.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-69 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Very Ape?

137 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 Very Ape hard to play on drums?

55 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Very Ape?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 33, 57 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED