Rooster · Alice in Chains

99 bars, 5:30, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 36-38, and 8 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
ROOSTER · BARS 28-29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 35, 43, 48, 49, 52, 53 and 7 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 78-79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 6 sections: 74 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-27.

PART A
CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCANS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rooster?

72 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 Rooster hard to play on drums?

64 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Rooster?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 35, 43, 48, 49, 52, 53 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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