Creepy Green Light · Type O Negative

178 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-28 and 46-60 -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
CREEPY GREEN LIGHT · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 29, 37, 61, 65, 69, 73 and 7 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 14 sections: 87 keep time, 13 are fills, 21 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-169.

PART C
PART F
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART S8
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS 2
11 groovesOFS10CS8+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Creepy Green Light?

123 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 Creepy Green Light hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Creepy Green Light?

12 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 29, 37, 61, 65, 69, 73 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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