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Good Golly Miss Molly · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 8 OF 12
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
91 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Good Golly Miss Molly on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-29, ride through bars 30-37, toms through bars 38-42, ride through bars 43-62 and toms through bars 63-67, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Good Golly Miss Molly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-99 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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