Heart-Shaped Box
Nirvana · 1993
Loud-quiet dynamics with explosive choruses for practicing power and control.
- Artist
- Nirvana
- Year
- 1993
- Genre
- grunge
- Drummer
- Dave Grohl
- Tempo
- 100 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- half-time to driving
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
60bpm
Building
80bpm
Target
100bpm
The feel
A half-time to driving in 4/4 around 100 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Feel the backbeat on beat 3. Resist collapsing it into a straight-time groove.
- •Keep the quarter-note kick relentless and even — it's the engine.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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Learn it
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