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Copy of a · Nine Inch Nails

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove C -- Verse
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0 / 14 PASSED · 139 BARS LIT
VERSE
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
CHORUS 3
VERSE 4
VERSE 5
VERSE 6
4 groovesCEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Copy of a on drums

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

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-140, snare through bars 141-145 and hi-hat through bars 146-185.

The beat

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.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Copy of a -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 54-79 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED