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Rotten Apple · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 12 OF 66
Join Part S2 to Part H (bars 15-17)
53 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART H
COUNT-IN
PART S2
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rotten Apple on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, ride through bars 17-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52, ride through bars 53-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---X--------X---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Rotten Apple -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- H, R -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BF -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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