Copy of a · Nine Inch Nails

185 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-43, 45-55 and 61-65, and 4 more places -- 77.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
COPY OF A · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 13 sections: 169 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-55.

VERSE
CHORUS 3
VERSE 4
VERSE 5
VERSE 6
4 groovesCEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Copy of a?

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 Copy of a hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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