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CREEP U · Black Dresses

CREEP U · Black Dresses
EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 17 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesBDFCS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play CREEP U on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-58 and snare through bars 59-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17 and 26-40 -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x-------x---o---|
SD |--------x-----xx--------x-------|
FT |x---------------x---x-----------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
CREEP U -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-41 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-74 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is CREEP U?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 U hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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