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Plateau · Nirvana

EXERCISE 12 OF 18
Join Part D to Outro (bars 27-29)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
PART B
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHCDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Plateau on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-48 and ride through bars 49-65.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED