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.

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

TEMPO

134 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

119

LENGTH

3:33

DIFFICULTY

60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43, snare through bars 44-52 and toms through bars 53-82, and 4 more changes after that.

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-----x-x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|

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

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Bars 71-85 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
6. Through Part J and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.