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Pincushion · ZZ Top

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pincushion on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-10 and ride through bars 11-71.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----xxx-x-----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Pincushion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 56-64 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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