Rape Me Live At The Paramount 1991 · Nirvana

73 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 29 and 31-37, and 3 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
RAPE ME LIVE AT THE PARAMOUNT 1991 · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 28, 30, 38, 44, 56 and 1 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 5 sections: 50 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1JFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rape Me Live At The Paramount 1991?

113 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 Rape Me Live At The Paramount 1991 hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rape Me Live At The Paramount 1991?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 28, 30, 38, 44, 56 and 1 more.

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