What More Can I Say · Nirvana

66 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-43 and 51-66 -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WHAT MORE CAN I SAY · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 6 sections: 53 keep time, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-66.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesDCS5BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What More Can I Say?

110 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 What More Can I Say 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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