Description
Notes From John
BPM = 62, in 4/4, with a printed instruction to speed up slowly over the song: the last Intro bar is marked quarter = 66 and the Outro quarter = 69. The chart is marked “play with hot rods or brushes” and “non-accented snares = softer but not quite ghost notes”. The Intro is written as rests up to one bar of snare sixteenths with accents and a flam. Verse 1 at 0:59 keeps snare sixteenths, with accents in a different spot from bar to bar, flams before many accents, triplet sixteenths and a sparse kick figure. The Interludes and Verse 2 use the same writing, with bracketed snare notes, and the first Interlude and Verse 2 close on a bar of snare eighths with accents. The Outro at 3:06 adds hat-foot notes beside the kick, and the chart ends on a flam and an accented snare note. The section boxes carry the record’s timestamps.
For the player
Sean Kinney plays brushed drums on the track. Use hot rods or brushes, as printed, and play the unaccented snare notes softer than the accents but louder than ghost notes. The tempo is marked to rise from quarter = 62 to 69 over the song. At BPM = 62 the job is the feel.
Drums Sheet Music for “Nutshell” by Alice in Chains.
