Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival · Creedence Clearwater Revival

94 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-13, 21 and 24-29, and 9 more places -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
PROUD MARY - CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 44.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 2 sections: 90 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-94.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival?

118 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 - Creedence Clearwater Revival hard to play on drums?

50 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?

94 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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