Creep · Stone Temple Pilots

73 bars, 5:19, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 6-14 and 16, and 10 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 55 BPM
CREEP · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 31 and 45.

LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 7 sections: 60 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Creep?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Creep hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 31 and 45.

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