Good Golly Miss Molly · Creedence Clearwater Revival

99 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 2:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-22 and 30-35, and 5 more places -- 68.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 153 BPM
GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 7 sections: 87 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-99.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Good Golly Miss Molly?

153 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Good Golly Miss Molly hard to play on drums?

59 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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