Gave Up · Nine Inch Nails

140 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-84 and 87-140 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 144 BPM
GAVE UP · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 4 sections: 134 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-84.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gave Up?

144 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 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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