We Die Young · Alice in Chains

79 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 6 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
WE DIE YOUNG · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 20, 36, 42, 46 and 7 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 10 sections: 44 keep time, 13 are fills, 15 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-41.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGKS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Die Young?

126 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 We Die Young hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 We Die Young?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 20, 36, 42, 46 and 7 more.

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