Drain You (Live At The Paramount) · Nirvana

118 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 28-43 and 85-104 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 137 BPM
DRAIN YOU (LIVE AT THE PARAMOUNT) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 24, 27, 44, 51, 84 and 2 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 9 sections: 96 keep time, 8 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-76.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDHIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drain You (Live At The Paramount)?

137 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 Drain You (Live At The Paramount) hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Drain You (Live At The Paramount)?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 24, 27, 44, 51, 84 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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