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Needles And Pins · Deftones

EXERCISE 2 OF 30
Groove M -- Chorus
11 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Needles And Pins on drums

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.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-44, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x----------g----x-------|
BD |x-x---x---------x---x-x---------|
Needles And Pins -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 13 minutes.
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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