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Cotton Fields (Full song) · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cotton Fields (Full song) on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-5, silence through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-69, ride through bars 70-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-105.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Cotton Fields (Full song) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 50-65 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED