Somewhat Damaged · Nine Inch Nails

65 bars of 9/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 4:03 of playing on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
9/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-21 -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SOMEWHAT DAMAGED · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 6 sections: 22 keep time and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS6CBHE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somewhat Damaged?

110 BPM, in 9/4, 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 Somewhat Damaged hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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