I Heard It Through The Grapevine · Creedence Clearwater Revival

111 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 12-14, and 23 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 16, 44, 72 and 100.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 8 sections: 98 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-28.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Heard It Through The Grapevine?

120 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 I Heard It Through The Grapevine hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 I Heard It Through The Grapevine?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 16, 44, 72 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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