Susie Q. · Creedence Clearwater Revival

145 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 16-70 and 99-113, and 1 more place -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
SUSIE Q. · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 8 sections: 137 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-70.

PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDCGA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Susie Q.?

126 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 Susie Q. hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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