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Rain When I Die · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 4 OF 47
Groove S -- Part S
14 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART S2
PART C
PART S
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART E
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesS11XCALS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rain When I Die on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 3-24, hi-hat through bars 25-37, ride through bars 38-44, hi-hat through bars 45-58, ride through bars 59-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-70, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38               39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x-x-----x---x-|
HF |x---------------|----------------|
Rain When I Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- X -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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