Drain You · Nirvana

119 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100
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 · 134 BPM
DRAIN YOU · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 27, 51, 83, 84 and 116.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 9 sections: 92 keep time, 6 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-73.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBHDLJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drain You?

134 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 hard to play on drums?

60 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?

119 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 27, 51, 83, 84 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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