Centerfield · John Fogerty

137 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 29-35, and 13 more places -- 78% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 143 BPM
CENTERFIELD · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 50, 94 and 136.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 3 sections: 118 keep time, 4 are fills, 4 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-93.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
3 groovesES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Centerfield?

143 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 Centerfield hard to play on drums?

53 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?

137 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Centerfield?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 50, 94 and 136.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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