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Grin (Nails Hurt) · Coroner

EXERCISE 33 OF 50
Join Part O to Chorus 3 (bars 83-85)
133 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART N
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesIS21LNO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grin (Nails Hurt) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-81, kick and crashes through bars 82-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-135, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Grin (Nails Hurt) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-45 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-65 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-136 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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