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On A Plain · Nirvana

EXERCISE 9 OF 30
Groove I
76 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesELJS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On A Plain on drums

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.

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-52, toms through bars 53-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-107.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
On A Plain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-70 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-92 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED