Would? Drum · Alice in Chains

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
WOULD? DRUM · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 10 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

PART D
CHORUS
PART I
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFIDKBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Would? Drum?

98 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? Drum hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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? Drum?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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