Sin · Nine Inch Nails

121 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-64 and 81-120 -- 75.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SIN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 5 sections: 100 keep time, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-64.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sin?

128 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 Sin hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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