Wish · Nine Inch Nails

122 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalElectronic120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-84, 87-88 and 91-122 -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
WISH · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 22, 44 and 48.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 5 sections: 112 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-122.

PART A
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMAGJKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wish?

135 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 Wish hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Wish?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 22, 44 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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