Down In A Hole · Alice in Chains

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:37 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
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 43-44, and 8 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
DOWN IN A HOLE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 25, 45, 47 and 27 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 11 sections: 89 keep time, 33 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-108.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIHDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Down In A Hole?

95 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 Down In A Hole hard to play on drums?

47 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 31 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 Down In A Hole?

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 25, 45, 47 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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