Bed Of Nails · Alice Cooper

143 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32 and 52, and 15 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BED OF NAILS · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 10, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 20 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 23-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 11 sections: 83 keep time, 26 are fills, 17 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-41.

PART S2
PART O
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMOS2SA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bed Of Nails?

138 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 Bed Of Nails hard to play on drums?

62 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Bed Of Nails?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 10, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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