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Pens And Needles · Hawthorne Heights

EXERCISE 19 OF 44
Fill at bar 41, 71, 117 and 125 (a small one)
101 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pens And Needles on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-29 and ride through bars 30-31, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|--x-------x-----|
Pens And Needles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- F, H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-129 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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