The Needle and the Spoon · Lynyrd Skynyrd

122 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 27, and 15 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
THE NEEDLE AND THE SPOON · BAR 87
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 10, 12, 20 and 28 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 17 sections: 67 keep time, 34 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-109.

CHORUS 3
PART X
PART U
PART P
OUTRO
10 groovesHPMUX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Needle and the Spoon?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Needle and the Spoon hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 The Needle and the Spoon?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 10, 12, 20 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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