Credence · Opeth

67 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 4:03 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-8 and 11-12, and 2 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
CREDENCE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 18, 29 and 37.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 5 sections: 35 keep time, 4 are fills, 5 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

CHORUS
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS5AHKCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Credence?

98 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Credence hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Credence?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 18, 29 and 37.

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