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You Know You're Right · Nirvana

EXERCISE 3 OF 43
Groove D -- Part D
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PART C
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMCDAS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Know You're Right on drums

153 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 3-7, toms through bars 8-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, snare through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-52 and ride through bars 53-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 45, and 24 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|
You Know You're Right -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 44, 48, 51 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- M, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-141 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-85 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is You Know You're Right?

169 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 You Know You're Right hard to play on drums?

59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 You Know You're Right?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 44, 48, 51 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED