Only · Nine Inch Nails

123 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8, 13-63 and 72-98, and 1 more place -- 76.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
ONLY · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 7 sections: 114 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-62.

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

Questions

What BPM is Only?

112 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 Only hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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