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

EXERCISE 31 OF 61
Join Part O to Part B (bars 53-55)
122 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART O
PART B
PART P
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBPOY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Put A Spell On You (AB) on drums

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

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-36, snare through bars 37-38, ride through bars 39-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-47, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x---x-x-|
I Put A Spell On You (AB) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- D, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-105 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-63 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-74 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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