Nutshell – Alice In Chains – Song Breakdown

A variation on the standard train beat. It sounds like hot rods are used, but brushes should work too. The snare should be played with lots of dynamics and feel. As a general rule (with exceptions), accented snares on 2 and 4 should be the loudest, accented snares on other beats the next loudest, normal snare notation – softer than a normal hit, and ghosts snares are as they always are.

I put in step hi-hat only when I could hear it in the isolated track (which I made using AI), which isn’t until bar 56. There is a chance he could be playing it on all 8th notes, but it’s not audible throughout the song.