On A Plain · Nirvana

107 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 12 and 14-17, and 16 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ON A PLAIN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 21 and 9 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 6 sections: 86 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-106.

CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesELJS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On A Plain?

120 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 On A Plain 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 On A Plain?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 21 and 9 more.

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