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"Prolly" · McCafferty

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Prolly" on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-31, hi-hat through bars 32-56, snare through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-79 and snare through bars 80-88, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-56 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-69 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-92 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-104 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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