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La Mer · Nine Inch Nails

EXERCISE 5 OF 10
Groove G
58 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Mer on drums

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

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-93.

The beat

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.

    7            8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |--o---o---o-|--o---o---o-|
SD |gg--Xg---X--|Xg--gg--Xg--|
BD |x-x----x---x|----x-x----x|
HF |x---x---x---|x---x---x---|
La Mer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED