Plateau (MTV Unplugged) · Nirvana

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 18-20 and 22-28, and 3 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
PLATEAU (MTV UNPLUGGED) · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 3 sections: 61 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-45.

PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Plateau (MTV Unplugged)?

85 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 Plateau (MTV Unplugged) hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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