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Creep (unplugged) · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 18 OF 33
Fill at bar 31, 83, 87 and 4 more (a small one)
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creep (unplugged) on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100

ride through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-32, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-------|
Creep (unplugged) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- N, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-64 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 28-86 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-147 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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