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Shame In You · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 12 OF 38
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-16)
76 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDTAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shame In You on drums

100 bars, 5:29, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-51, toms through bars 52-53, hi-hat through bars 54-97 and snare through bars 98-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 26-28 and 30-32, and 5 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-xx---x-----|
Shame In You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 29, 33, 34 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 33-54 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shame In You?

73 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 Shame In You hard to play on drums?

64 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Shame In You?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 29, 33, 34 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED