Plateau · Nirvana

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 16 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PLATEAU · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 5 sections: 54 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-64.

PART B
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHCDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Plateau?

90 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 hard to play on drums?

47 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Plateau?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

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