Hurt · Nine Inch Nails

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
14/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12 and 41-55 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 81 BPM
HURT · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 4 sections: 23 keep time and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesS3BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hurt?

81 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 Hurt hard to play on drums?

14 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many limbs land on the same note. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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