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Rotten Apple (full) · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 16 OF 16
Play the whole song with the record
114 / 126 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rotten Apple (full) on drums

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

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
7:00
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-126.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---x--------x---|
BD |x-x---x---------|
Rotten Apple (full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-88 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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