Dead Souls · Nine Inch Nails

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-68, 81-92 and 101-116 -- 82.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 99 BPM
DEAD SOULS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 5 sections: 112 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-68.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Souls?

99 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 Dead Souls hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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