The Perfect Drug · Nine Inch Nails

156 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-39, 72-91 and 104-115, and 1 more place -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 149 BPM
THE PERFECT DRUG · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 17 sections: 115 keep time and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-91.

PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART L
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDBFNS7+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Perfect Drug?

149 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 Perfect Drug hard to play on drums?

58 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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.

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