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Somewhat Damaged · Nine Inch Nails

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove C -- Part C
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0 / 14 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somewhat Damaged on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
9/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32 and silence through bars 33-65.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a9e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o-------|
T1 |------x-----------x---x-------------|
T2 |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
HF |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
Somewhat Damaged -- 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 13 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-32 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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