La Mer · Nine Inch Nails

93 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 93 BPM, 3:03 of playing on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 15-16, and 14 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 93 BPM
LA MER · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 3 sections: 87 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-86.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Mer?

93 BPM, in 3/4, 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 La Mer hard to play on drums?

60 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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