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Proud Mary · Ike & Tina Turner

Proud Mary · Ike & Tina Turner
EXERCISE 27 OF 34
Groove S -- Outro 2
161 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 4
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Proud Mary on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
7:55
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 2-20, silence through bars 21-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-178.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 56-72 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 92-126 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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