Discipline · Nine Inch Nails

144 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34, and 35 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
DISCIPLINE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 3 sections: 140 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-70.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Discipline?

122 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 Discipline hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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