Needful Things · Stray From The Path

132 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45 and 47, and 4 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NEEDFUL THINGS · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 41 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 22-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 15 sections: 59 keep time, 47 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-82.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART Y
PART AD
PART AH
PART B
PART Y
10 groovesMSYADB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Needful Things?

140 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 Needful Things hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Needful Things?

19 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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