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Would? · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 8 OF 43
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJGQDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Would? on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
81/100

ride through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-----x-----------|
Would? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 22, 28, 36 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-40 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-32 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-69 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Would??

92 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 Would? hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 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 Would??

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 22, 28, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED