Proud Mary · Creedence Clearwater Revival

96 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-19, 22-32 and 34-35, and 10 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
PROUD MARY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 33, 45 and 77.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 6 sections: 81 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-32.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Proud Mary?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Proud Mary hard to play on drums?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Proud Mary?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 33, 45 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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