NAIL MARY · To The Grave

84 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7, 24-25 and 60-61, and 1 more place -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
NAIL MARY · BARS 24-25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 23 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 3-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 17 sections: 28 keep time, 29 are fills, 8 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-32.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART X
PART AW
11 groovesEAWNACR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is NAIL MARY?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 NAIL MARY hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in NAIL MARY?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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