Needles And Pins · Smokie

80 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
24/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-40, 42-44 and 46, and 1 more place -- 93.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NEEDLES AND PINS · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 5 sections: 74 keep time, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-40.

CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCAS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

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?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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