Rotten Apple (full) · Alice in Chains

126 bars, 7:00, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
7:00
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 10 more places -- 61.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 72 BPM
ROTTEN APPLE (FULL) · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 39, 40, 59, 60, 87 and 88.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 10 sections: 97 keep time, 6 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-126.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIS1DS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rotten Apple (full)?

72 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 (full) hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 7:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Rotten Apple (full)?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 39, 40, 59, 60, 87 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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