Creep (unplugged) · Stone Temple Pilots

147 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-59, 97-111 and 133, and 1 more place -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
CREEP (UNPLUGGED) · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 11, 31, 63, 73, 83 and 5 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 10 sections: 94 keep time, 11 are fills, 28 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-59.

PART E
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNDEJS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Creep (unplugged)?

115 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 (unplugged) hard to play on drums?

55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 (unplugged)?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 11, 31, 63, 73, 83 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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