Grind · Alice in Chains

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 9-12 and 17-20, and 7 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
GRIND · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 16 sections: 86 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-71.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART C
OUTRO
3 groovesBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grind?

88 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 Grind hard to play on drums?

53 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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