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Grind · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 7 OF 18
Join Chorus 2 to Part C (bars 27-29)
101 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART C
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART C
OUTRO
3 groovesBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grind on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-56, ride through bars 57-72, hi-hat through bars 73-84 and ride through bars 85-100, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------x-------x-|
HH |o-o-o---o-o-o---|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Grind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-28 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-40 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 37-72 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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