Quake · Nine Inch Nails

24 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 0:54 of playing on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
24
LENGTH
0:54
DIFFICULTY
9/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
QUAKE · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

24 bars across 2 sections: 16 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Quake?

160 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Quake hard to play on drums?

9 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

24 bars, about 0:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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