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Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks · Panic! At The Disco

EXERCISE 10 OF 26
Groove G
84 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, OUTRO
PART B
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesKDBIS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, silence through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-33, snare through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-62 and snare through bars 63-64, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-42 and 65-67, and 10 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |oooooooooooooooo|
SD |--x-------x-----|
BD |------x-------x-|
Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks -- 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 25 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 -- K, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-26 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-81 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks?

145 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 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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