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Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove E -- Outro 2
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival on drums

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

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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