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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

128 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

113

LENGTH

3:32

DIFFICULTY

77/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-52, toms through bars 53-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-113.

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |Xxox-xoxXxox-xox|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |X---X---X---X---|

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

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. Bars 5-32 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 29-69 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part D and the Verse 3 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
6. Through the Verse 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Through the Verse 3 and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.