March Of The Pigs · Nine Inch Nails

89 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 11 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
MARCH OF THE PIGS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 5 sections: 80 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

CHORUS
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is March Of The Pigs?

134 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 March Of The Pigs hard to play on drums?

64 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 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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