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Born On The Bayou · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART C
OUTRO
7 groovesDFCS1S10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born On The Bayou on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-149.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 13-14 and 16-22, and 21 more places -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Born On The Bayou -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 58, 60, 66, 68, 94 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 4-59 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-138 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Born On The Bayou?

120 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 Born On The Bayou hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Born On The Bayou?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 58, 60, 66, 68, 94 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED