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Creep · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 8 OF 22
Groove E
64 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creep on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
69/100

ride through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-47, hi-hat through bars 48-55, ride through bars 56-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-73.

The beat

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.

    7
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------ggg------------x--------gg-|
BD |x--------------------------x--x-----------------|
Creep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-30 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-69 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED