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Needles And Pins · Chris Norman

Needles And Pins · Chris Norman
EXERCISE 26 OF 33
Run G3 · Chorus 3 (bars 66-75)
78 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGFEPS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Needles And Pins on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-50, snare through bars 51-52, hi-hat through bars 53-80 and kick and crashes through bars 81-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-19, 21-27 and 29-30, and 7 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Needles And Pins -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 4, 28, 51, 52, 68 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- G, F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-54 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-85 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Needles And Pins?

120 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 Needles And Pins hard to play on drums?

47 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?

89 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Needles And Pins?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 4, 28, 51, 52, 68 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED