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God Am · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 10 OF 16
Run K1 · Chorus (bars 23-56)
68 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Am on drums

79 bars, 4:32, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 3-23, ride through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-39, ride through bars 40-55, hi-hat through bars 56-63 and ride through bars 64-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24-30, 40-46 and 48-54, and 2 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    24               25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |-------------x--|--------x-----x-|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---x-----|
SD |----x-------x--x|----x---x---xx--|
BD |--xx----x----x--|-xx---xx---x--x-|
God Am -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- K, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is God Am?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is God Am 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?

79 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 God Am?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED