Pins And Needles · Billy Talent

103 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 5 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
PINS AND NEEDLES · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 6 sections: 53 keep time, 1 is a fill, 19 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1FCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pins And Needles?

148 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 Pins And Needles hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Pins And Needles?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

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