Wrote A Song For Everyone · Creedence Clearwater Revival

138 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 9-21, and 17 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 23, 30, 51, 58, 75, 82 and 6 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 3 sections: 86 keep time, 12 are fills, 36 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wrote A Song For Everyone?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Wrote A Song For Everyone hard to play on drums?

41 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Wrote A Song For Everyone?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 23, 30, 51, 58, 75, 82 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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