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Spank Thru · Nirvana

EXERCISE 9 OF 46
Groove N -- Part N
50 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spank Thru on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-27, toms through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-92, toms through bars 93-94 and kick and crashes through bars 95-99.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- J -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Break and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-30 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-48 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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