Grin (Nails Hurt) · Coroner

196 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 6:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-32 and 34-40, and 3 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
GRIN (NAILS HURT) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 33 and 8 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 135 · LANDS ON BAR 136

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 21 sections: 122 keep time, 14 are fills, 12 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-123.

CHORUS
PART N
PART O
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesIS21LNO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grin (Nails Hurt)?

134 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 Grin (Nails Hurt) hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Grin (Nails Hurt)?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 33 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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