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Stone · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 10 OF 31
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
119 / 166 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART L
CHORUS 5
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesALFOS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stone on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-56, ride through bars 57-60, hi-hat through bars 61-64 and ride through bars 65-68, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 9 more places -- 59.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--------o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x---|------------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|----x---x-----x-|
Stone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 36, 48, 60 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-61 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 77-115 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 114-134 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stone?

153 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 Stone hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Stone?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 36, 48, 60 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED