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Eraser · Nine Inch Nails

EXERCISE 4 OF 8
Groove C -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
100 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eraser on drums

132 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 3:18 of playing on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 1-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-132.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-100 -- 75.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1            2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |--------x---|------x-----|
T1 |----------x-|------------|
T2 |----------x-|------------|
FT |x---x-------|--x-----x-x-|
BD |x---x-------|--x-----x-x-|
Eraser -- 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 7 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Eraser?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Eraser hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 · 132 BARS ANALYSED