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Proof · Dollchestra

Proof · Dollchestra
EXERCISE 22 OF 104
2-bar fill at bar 23
66 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Proof on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-34 and toms through bars 35-38, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-75 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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