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Hate To Feel · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 23 OF 57
Join Part I to Part N (bars 23-25)
90 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART N
CHORUS
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
7 groovesCNUIQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hate To Feel on drums

161 bars, 8:38, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
8:38
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80 and ride through bars 81-112, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 17 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....
CC |x-----------------|
RD |---x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---------x--------|
BD |x-----x--------x--|
Hate To Feel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 25-80 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hate To Feel?

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

Is Hate To Feel hard to play on drums?

63 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 8:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Hate To Feel?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED