Spank Thru · Nirvana

99 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 3 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SPANK THRU · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 24, 28, 29, 33, 37 and 21 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 58 keep time, 27 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-23.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJNCHS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spank Thru?

112 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 Spank Thru hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Spank Thru?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 24, 28, 29, 33, 37 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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