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Needles And Pins Live 1977 · Smokie

EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
76 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Needles And Pins Live 1977 on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 1-2 and hi-hat through bars 3-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-9, 11-13 and 18-21, and 9 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Needles And Pins Live 1977 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 22, 45, 46, 62 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- D, C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Needles And Pins Live 1977?

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 Live 1977 hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Needles And Pins Live 1977?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 22, 45, 46, 62 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED