Rain When I Die · Alice in Chains

132 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 6:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 59-61, and 1 more place -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
RAIN WHEN I DIE · BARS 38-39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 45 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 2-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 12-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 11 sections: 33 keep time, 51 are fills and 38 are silent.

PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART E
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesS11XCALS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rain When I Die?

120 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Rain When I Die hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 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 Rain When I Die?

9 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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