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EXERCISE 4 OF 17
Groove C
62 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creep by Radiohead on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
49/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-22, 26-31 and 33-46, and 7 more places -- 60.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x---x-|
Creep by Radiohead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 63 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Creep by Radiohead?

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 Creep by Radiohead hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Creep by Radiohead?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 63 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED