Creep · Radiohead

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-22, 35-36 and 38, and 1 more place -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
CREEP · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 63, 64, 87, 88 and 89.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 87-89 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 6 sections: 73 keep time, 6 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBLKAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Creep?

93 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?

64 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Creep?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 63, 64, 87, 88 and 89.

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