needLe · Leo/need

178 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 45 and 47-49, and 17 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
NEEDLE · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 59 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 10-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 20 sections: 75 keep time, 66 are fills, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-33.

PART S2
PART V
CHORUS
PART AH
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART BF
PART AH
PART AH
14 groovesABAHRS2BF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is needLe?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is needLe hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 needLe?

19 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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