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Creepy Green Light · Type O Negative

EXERCISE 35 OF 57
Run O1 · Chorus (bars 67-81)
103 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creepy Green Light on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-61, ride through bars 62-67 and toms through bars 68-69, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14                       15
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x-----------|
BD |x--------------------x--|------x--------x--------|
Creepy Green Light -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-146 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S8 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-105 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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