Cotton Fields (Full song) · Creedence Clearwater Revival

105 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 9-28 and 30-36, and 4 more places -- 62.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
COTTON FIELDS (FULL SONG) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 88 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-36.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cotton Fields (Full song)?

150 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 Cotton Fields (Full song) 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 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.

How many fills are in Cotton Fields (Full song)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

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