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Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks (Live In Denver) · Panic! at the Disco

EXERCISE 3 OF 43
Fill at bar 32 and 70 (a small one)
47 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
VERSE
5 groovesULCPDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks (Live In Denver) on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-95, kick and crashes through bars 96-97, hi-hat through bars 98-128 and kick and crashes through bars 129-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-54, 56-57 and 82-83, and 9 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxooxxxxxxooxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-------x-------|
Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks (Live In Denver) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 16, 22, 23, 32, 40 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- U, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-33 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks (Live In Denver)?

150 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 Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks (Live In Denver) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks (Live In Denver)?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 16, 22, 23, 32, 40 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED