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Susie Q. · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 7 OF 23
Join Part A to Part C (bars 5-7)
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0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
PART A
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
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Susie Q. on drums

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

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-70, hi-hat through bars 71-98, ride through bars 99-122 and hi-hat through bars 123-135, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Susie Q. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-74 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 71-132 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 130-145 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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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