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I Stay Away · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 20 OF 45
Groove R
41 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLDIVS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Stay Away on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-30, 42 and 66, and 1 more place -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-g-x-g-g-g-gxg-g|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
I Stay Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 31, 32, 40 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-21 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Stay Away?

77 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 I Stay Away hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 I Stay Away?

9 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 31, 32, 40 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED