Bad Moon Rising · Creedence Clearwater Revival

100 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-25 and 27-41, and 6 more places -- 89.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAD MOON RISING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 58, 82 and 99.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 2 sections: 93 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-57.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Moon Rising?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bad Moon Rising hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bad Moon Rising?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 58, 82 and 99.

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