I Put A Spell On You (AB) · Creedence clearwater revival

138 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 4:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 12 and 14-17, and 11 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU (AB) · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 3, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 29 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 16 sections: 85 keep time, 35 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-17.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART O
PART P
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBPOY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Put A Spell On You (AB)?

98 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Put A Spell On You (AB) hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Put A Spell On You (AB)?

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 3, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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