Angry Chair · Alice in Chains

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-9, 11-16 and 25-27, and 4 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
ANGRY CHAIR · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 23, 24, 28, 45, 49 and 12 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 7 sections: 101 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-22.

CHORUS
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAHOEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Angry Chair?

108 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 Angry Chair hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Angry Chair?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 23, 24, 28, 45, 49 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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