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Bootleg · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDEGS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bootleg on drums

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

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-109.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 11-19 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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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