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Creep · GLASS TIDES

Creep · GLASS TIDES
EXERCISE 5 OF 20
Groove B
44 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesECS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creep on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-71 and kick and crashes through bars 72-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29 and 31, and 11 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Creep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 3 more.

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 -- E, C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Creep?

94 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 hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED