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Would? Drum · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 4 OF 39
Groove I -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Would? Drum on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
77/100

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 5 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 -- 20.5% 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? Drum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-16 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-72 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-53 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-71 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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