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.

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 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---------------|----------------|

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

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.
3. Through Part S2 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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.