Stay Away · Nirvana

131 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-17, 27-33 and 43-49, and 4 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
STAY AWAY · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 82, 128, 129, 130 and 131.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 128-131 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 15 sections: 108 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-118.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
PART G
CHORUS 6
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBAEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stay Away?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Stay Away hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Stay Away?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 82, 128, 129, 130 and 131.

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