Pens And Needles · Hawthorne Heights

129 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-25 and 42-57 -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 161 BPM
PENS AND NEEDLES · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 5, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 15 more.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 22 are fills, 28 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-57.

PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFHRCN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pens And Needles?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pens And Needles hard to play on drums?

52 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pens And Needles?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 5, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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