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.

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

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

152

LENGTH

5:04

DIFFICULTY

48/100

toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64, silence through bars 65-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-152.

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.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-xx------|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G, A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 13-26 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 21-48 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
6. Bars 53-152 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.