Piggy (Live Version) · Nine Inch Nails

74 bars, 4:29, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12 and 21-30 -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 66 BPM
PIGGY (LIVE VERSION) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 39, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51 and 15 more.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 6 sections: 46 keep time, 21 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART A
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCAHBOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Piggy (Live Version)?

66 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Piggy (Live Version) hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Piggy (Live Version)?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 39, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51 and 15 more.

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