Lodi · Creedence Clearwater Revival

102 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-35, 37-39 and 41-59, and 7 more places -- 86.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
LODI · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 40, 60, 63, 81, 85 and 1 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars: 93 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-35.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lodi?

128 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 Lodi hard to play on drums?

39 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lodi?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 40, 60, 63, 81, 85 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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