I Put A Spell On You · Creedence Clearwater Revival

77 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 4:39 of playing on crash, ride, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 5 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 3, 33, 37, 38 and 39.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 37-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 6 sections: 40 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-21.

PART E
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesMS6EIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Put A Spell On You?

98 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

51 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 3, 33, 37, 38 and 39.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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