Getting Smaller · Nine Inch Nails

150 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

165 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

150

LENGTH

3:38

DIFFICULTY

57/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-42, snare through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-150.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 28 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---x-|

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 92 and 150.

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 52-88 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
7. Through Part I and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.