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Drain You (Paris, France 1994 Live) · Nirvana

EXERCISE 35 OF 35
Play the whole song with the record
114 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 118 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBIDOM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drain You (Paris, France 1994 Live) on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
59/100

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 53-84, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 28-43 and 85-104 -- 42.1% 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-|
Drain You (Paris, France 1994 Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 27, 51, 60, 61, 62 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  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 I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Drain You (Paris, France 1994 Live)?

143 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 (Paris, France 1994 Live) hard to play on drums?

59 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 (Paris, France 1994 Live)?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 27, 51, 60, 61, 62 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED