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Bad Moon Rising · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Moon Rising on drums

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

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 3-100.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Bad Moon Rising -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED