Proof · Dollchestra

176 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 4:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 21, and 14 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 171 BPM
PROOF · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 85 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16 and 79 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 19 sections: 54 keep time, 85 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-111.

CHORUS
PART I
PART P
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART AN
PART AT
CHORUS 4
PART AE
PART S17
OUTRO
12 groovesCXLATP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Proof?

171 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 Proof hard to play on drums?

62 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Proof?

27 fills to learn, played 85 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16 and 79 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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