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Suzie Q · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Fill at bar 2 (a small one)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEDS7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suzie Q on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare 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
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 2-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-54 and ride through bars 55-56, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 15 and 23, and 14 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Suzie Q -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 2.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-65 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 81-104 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Suzie Q?

135 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 Suzie Q 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Suzie Q?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 2.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED