Swing On This · Alice in Chains

35 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 0:59 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
35
LENGTH
0:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-14, and 3 more places -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SWING ON THIS · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

35 bars across 2 sections: 33 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Swing On This?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Swing On This hard to play on drums?

53 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

35 bars, about 0:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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