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Proud Mary · Elvis Presley

EXERCISE 6 OF 52
Groove J -- Part J
24 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART K
PART J
PART M
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCKJXT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Proud Mary on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, toms through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, ride through bars 19-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-30, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 44 and 48, and 2 more places -- 21.4% 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---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Proud Mary -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 25, 43 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-22 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-31 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-50 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-61 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Proud Mary?

144 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?

55 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Proud Mary?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 25, 43 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED