"Prolly" · McCafferty

128 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 41-54, and 3 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 195 BPM
"PROLLY" · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 55, 64, 88 and 3 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 12 sections: 70 keep time, 9 are fills, 23 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-120.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART O
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDIRS1B+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Prolly"?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is "Prolly" hard to play on drums?

49 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 "Prolly"?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 55, 64, 88 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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