Pincushion · ZZ Top

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 11-26 and 28-37, and 4 more places -- 76.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PINCUSHION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 71.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 5 sections: 64 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-57.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pincushion?

90 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 Pincushion hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pincushion?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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