Nancy Boy · Placebo

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 3 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 89 BPM
NANCY BOY · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 33 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 8 sections: 26 keep time, 39 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-17.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGLTAAS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nancy Boy?

89 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 Nancy Boy hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 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 Nancy Boy?

11 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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