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Come As You Are (Unplugged) · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Come As You Are (Unplugged) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-25, snare through bars 26-31, ride through bars 32-41, snare through bars 42-56 and ride through bars 57-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|x-x---x---x---x-|
Come As You Are (Unplugged) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-59 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-62 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED