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I Heard It Through The Grapevine · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 8 OF 20
Groove E
84 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Heard It Through The Grapevine on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, toms through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-56, toms through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-84 and toms through bars 85-92, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
I Heard It Through The Grapevine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, H -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 17-40 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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