Bootleg · Creedence Clearwater Revival

109 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 19-57 and 59-61, and 2 more places -- 81.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BOOTLEG · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 7 sections: 97 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-65.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDEGS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bootleg?

146 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 Bootleg hard to play on drums?

50 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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.

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