Long As I Can See The Light (v2) · Creedence Clearwater Revival

55 bars, 3:23, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3 and 5-54 -- 96.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 65 BPM
LONG AS I CAN SEE THE LIGHT (V2) · BARS 7-8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars: 54 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-54.

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

Questions

What BPM is Long As I Can See The Light (v2)?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Long As I Can See The Light (v2) hard to play on drums?

45 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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