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Centerfield · John Fogerty

EXERCISE 3 OF 14
Groove D
111 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
3 groovesES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Centerfield on drums

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

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-137.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Centerfield -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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