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Sin · Nine Inch Nails

EXERCISE 5 OF 12
Groove C
114 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sin on drums

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

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-15, snare through bars 16-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-70 and snare through bars 71-121.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Sin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-80 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED