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Down In A Hole · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove I -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down In A Hole on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-53, hi-hat through bars 54-57 and ride through bars 58-85, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Down In A Hole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-50 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-118 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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