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What More Can I Say · Nirvana

EXERCISE 10 OF 12
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 28-43)
56 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesDCS5BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What More Can I Say on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-9, hi-hat through bars 10-43, silence through bars 44-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-66.

The beat

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.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
What More Can I Say -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-31 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED