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The Perfect Drug · Nine Inch Nails

EXERCISE 24 OF 38
Run J1 · Part J (bars 116-119)
106 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART L
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDBFNS7+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Perfect Drug on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-23, silence through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-59, silence through bars 60-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-91, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o-------------|
SD |----x----xxrxxrx|
BD |x------x--------|
The Perfect Drug -- 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 37 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-59 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-95 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 102-116 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 116-132 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED