Gave Up (Live- And All That Could Have Been) · Nine inch nails

145 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 73-79 and 97-103, and 8 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
GAVE UP (LIVE- AND ALL THAT COULD HAVE BEEN) · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 65, 66, 72 and 11 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 65-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 13 sections: 112 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-54.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEACGH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gave Up (Live- And All That Could Have Been)?

145 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 Gave Up (Live- And All That Could Have Been) hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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.

How many fills are in Gave Up (Live- And All That Could Have Been)?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 65, 66, 72 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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