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Bed Of Nails · Alice Cooper

EXERCISE 3 OF 49
Groove S -- Part S
46 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, CHORUS 3, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bed Of Nails on drums

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.

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

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

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-21, snare through bars 22-26, ride through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50 and ride through bars 51-62, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Bed Of Nails -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- M, L -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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