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It Came Out Of The Sky · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 6 OF 18
Fill at bar 20, 52 and 60 (a small one)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Came Out Of The Sky on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 3-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 8 more places -- 52.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
It Came Out Of The Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B, J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is It Came Out Of The Sky?

150 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 It Came Out Of The Sky hard to play on drums?

44 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?

105 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in It Came Out Of The Sky?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED