Terrible Lie · Nine Inch Nails

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 29-36 and 61-108 -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
TERRIBLE LIE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time, 1 is a fill and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-108.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Terrible Lie?

95 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 Terrible Lie hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Terrible Lie?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

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