Would? (Acoustic) · Alice in Chains

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 29-35, and 2 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
WOULD? (ACOUSTIC) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 3, 20, 44, 60, 64 and 6 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 9 sections: 62 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
VERSE
OUTRO
6 groovesCNFJS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Would? (Acoustic)?

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 Would? (Acoustic) hard to play on drums?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Would? (Acoustic)?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 3, 20, 44, 60, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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