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

EXERCISE 11 OF 46
Join Part B to Part A (bars 17-19)
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PART A
PART B
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

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

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

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-42, snare through bars 43-64, hi-hat through bars 65-66 and toms through bars 67-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---xx--|
Gave Up (Live- And All That Could Have Been) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-28 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 29-44 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-73 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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