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The Needle and the Spoon · Lynyrd Skynyrd

EXERCISE 22 OF 64
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
70 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART P
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART U
PART P
OUTRO
10 groovesHPMUX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Needle and the Spoon on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, ride through bars 41-44 and kick and crashes through bars 45-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--------x---x-x-x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
The Needle and the Spoon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-9 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-106 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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