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We Die Young · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 7 OF 31
Join Part S2 to Chorus (bars 4-6)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, CHORUS
PART S2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Die Young on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
We Die Young -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-21 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-38 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-49 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-79 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED