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Last · Nine Inch Nails

EXERCISE 3 OF 21
Groove C -- Part C
52 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACBDEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
68/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 17-32 and 83-106 -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Last -- 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 20 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-48 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-61 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Last?

90 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 Last hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED