Nutshell (MTV Unplugged) · Alice in Chains

54 bars, 3:43, at 58 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 9-10 and 12-14, and 7 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 58 BPM
NUTSHELL (MTV UNPLUGGED) · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 2 sections: 48 keep time, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-52.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nutshell (MTV Unplugged)?

58 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Nutshell (MTV Unplugged) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 6 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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