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EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove J -- Part J
0 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART C
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S15
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPKJFT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creatures (For A While) on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-12, hi-hat through bars 13-49, snare through bars 50-55, hi-hat through bars 56-85 and silence through bars 86-90, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29 and 57-63 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |-g--xg-g-g--x---|
BD |x--x-x-x-x----x-|
HF |x---------------|
Creatures (For A While) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 37, 41, 45 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- J, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Creatures (For A While)?

96 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 Creatures (For A While) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Creatures (For A While)?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 37, 41, 45 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED