Proud Mary · Ike & Tina Turner

178 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
7:55
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-20 and 30-59 -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PROUD MARY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 76, 92, 93, 94, 95, 98 and 18 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 92-95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 98-99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 122-124 · LANDS ON BAR 125 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 15 sections: 127 keep time, 24 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-59.

PART B
BREAK
PART B
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJBFCS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Proud Mary?

90 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?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 7:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 76, 92, 93, 94, 95, 98 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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