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Sea Of Sorrow · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 39 OF 47
Join Part O to Outro (bars 125-127)
162 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEOABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sea Of Sorrow on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-122, ride through bars 123-124 and hi-hat through bars 125-174.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 55-60, 102-116 and 118-123, and 8 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    55               56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-------x-|x---------------|
RD |----------------|----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|x-x-----x-x-----|
Sea Of Sorrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 36, 40, 54 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- O, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-65 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-102 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 123-139 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sea Of Sorrow?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Sea Of Sorrow hard to play on drums?

57 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Sea Of Sorrow?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 36, 40, 54 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED