Happiness In Slavery · Nine Inch Nails

152 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-64, 105-111 and 113-152 -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HAPPINESS IN SLAVERY · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 9 sections: 112 keep time and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-152.

PART A
PART B
VERSE
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGS7ADE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Happiness In Slavery?

120 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 Happiness In Slavery hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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