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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

100 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

87

LENGTH

3:29

DIFFICULTY

63/100

ride through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-26, hi-hat through bars 27-44, ride through bars 45-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-68, and 2 more changes after that.

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o-o-----o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |---------x------|
T2 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
BD |x--x---x--x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 2-24 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 3 and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
7. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
8. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.