Rotten Apple · Alice in Chains

126 bars, 7:06, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 21-23 and 25, and 7 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 71 BPM
ROTTEN APPLE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 38 more.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BARS 11-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 71 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 12 sections: 58 keep time, 44 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-25.

COUNT-IN
PART H
CHORUS
PART V
PART AM
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
10 groovesRHVS1AM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rotten Apple?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Rotten Apple hard to play on drums?

62 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 7:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Rotten Apple?

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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