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Got Me Wrong · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 9 OF 40
Run S21 · Break (bars 3-4)
45 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
BREAK
PART E
PART G
PART E
PART D
PART L
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
7 groovesOEDGL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Got Me Wrong on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-30, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 20-21, and 5 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x-------x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--g-----x-----gg--g-----x-----g-|
FT |--------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x---------x-----x---x-----|
Got Me Wrong -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 22, 28, 34 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-12 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-31 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-38 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Got Me Wrong?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Got Me Wrong hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Got Me Wrong?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 22, 28, 34 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED