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Long As I Can See The Light (with vocal) · Creedence clearwater revival

EXERCISE 13 OF 21
2-bar fill at bar 71
103 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAKJGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Long As I Can See The Light (with vocal) on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 1-55, snare through bars 56-60, hi-hat through bars 61-72, ride through bars 73-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-23 and 25-31, and 5 more places -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Long As I Can See The Light (with vocal) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 71, 72 and 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, K -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 71-81 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

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

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 Long As I Can See The Light (with vocal) hard to play on drums?

37 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Long As I Can See The Light (with vocal)?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 71, 72 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED