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Plush · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 29 OF 31
Play the whole song with the record
91 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 93 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Plush on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, ride through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-38 and ride through bars 39-42, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-77 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
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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