Green River · Creedence Clearwater Revival

88 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-86 -- 97.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
GREEN RIVER · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 3 sections: 84 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-87.

OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Green River?

138 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 Green River hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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