The Hand That Feeds · Nine Inch Nails

113 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28, 41-52 and 69-80, and 8 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE HAND THAT FEEDS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 103 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-92.

PART A
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART D
VERSE 3
OUTRO
5 groovesCBGDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hand That Feeds?

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 The Hand That Feeds hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Hand That Feeds?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

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