Closer · Nine Inch Nails

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:52 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-40 and 65-84, and 1 more place -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CLOSER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 11 sections: 120 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-89.

PART A
VERSE
PART C
PART D
VERSE 2
CHORUS
PART D
VERSE 3
CHORUS 2
VERSE 4
OUTRO
6 groovesBEDFA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Closer?

90 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 Closer hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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