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Drums for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana: Part 3

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Summary: When playing drums for the fill of the Nirvana song "Smells Like Teen Spirit," play the bass drum on the sixteenth note upbeats and the snare drum on the downbeats. Learn how to master this tricky syncopated rhythm in this free cover songs video lesson.

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Drums for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana: Part 3

Okay, so for this fill the name of the game pretty much is the sixteenth note upbeats. Okay? So, what's happening with the kick drum is you have 1-e-and-a, 2-e-and-a, 3-e-and-a, 4-and. Okay. So, these are all the sixteenth note upbeats, while the snare drum is on the downbeats. So, that means that they are not lining up. They're going back and forth. Okay? So, playing them together it sounds, slowly it sounds like this. Two, three, four. Two, three, four. Okay? So, it's like they're kind talking back and forth. Alright? So, it's 1-e-a, 2-e-a, 3-e-a, 4-and. Okay? So, break that down, spend some time with it. Just kind of focus on maybe the first beat. Three, four. Three, four. Three, four. Three, four, and then if you can get that second snare in there, because that's going to kick right after that e-a-2. Okay? If you can work that in together then you've got the rest of the fill. Then you've just got that upbeat on four which is pretty straight forward. Okay. So, speed it back up the fill sounds like this. Alright. And then full speed. Okay? So, slow that down. Work out those sixteenth notes. It's not an easy thing to get at first because it's so syncopated, but once you kind of break that lock there's a lot of stuff that opens up for you.

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