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What The Hell Have I · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 13 OF 37
Fill at bar 24 (a small one)
73 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesCFS1HS11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What The Hell Have I on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and ride through bars 65-71, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 30.3% 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
RD |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
What The Hell Have I -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 24, 31, 32, 44, 48 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-36 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 44-73 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-97 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is What The Hell Have I?

100 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 What The Hell Have I hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 What The Hell Have I?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 24, 31, 32, 44, 48 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED