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I Put A Spell On You · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Groove C
21 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesMS6EIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Put A Spell On You on drums

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

51 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
6/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-37, snare through bars 38-39, ride through bars 40-53 and silence through bars 54-77.

The beat

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.

    22
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |------x---x-x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x---x-x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----x-----------x-----------------x-----|
I Put A Spell On You -- 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 3, 33, 37, 38 and 39.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-41 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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