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Lookin' Out My Back Door · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 2 OF 16
Groove C
40 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lookin' Out My Back Door on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 3-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 8-14 and 16-22, and 7 more places -- 63.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Lookin' Out My Back Door -- 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 26, 42, 47 and 48.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-60 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lookin' Out My Back Door?

105 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 Lookin' Out My Back Door hard to play on drums?

63 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Lookin' Out My Back Door?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 42, 47 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED