Needles And Pins · Deftones

60 bars, 3:26, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 21-23 and 25, and 4 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
NEEDLES AND PINS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 12 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 7 sections: 35 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART I
PART A
PART I
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesMIAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Needles And Pins?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Needles And Pins hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Needles And Pins?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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