Come As You Are (Unplugged) · Nirvana

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-25, 34-41 and 62-77 -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
COME AS YOU ARE (UNPLUGGED) · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 33, 49, 85 and 107.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 10 sections: 78 keep time, 5 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-25.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCJEGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Come As You Are (Unplugged)?

120 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 Come As You Are (Unplugged) hard to play on drums?

58 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Come As You Are (Unplugged)?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 33, 49, 85 and 107.

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