Plush · Stone Temple Pilots

93 bars, 4:58, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 15 and 21-23, and 7 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
PLUSH · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18 and 16 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 16-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 8 sections: 61 keep time, 22 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAGLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Plush?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Plush hard to play on drums?

63 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Plush?

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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