Proud Mary v2 · Ccr

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

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9-14 and 21, and 8 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
PROUD MARY V2 · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 23, 33, 39 and 45.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 8 sections: 78 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-77.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
3 groovesAIDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Proud Mary v2?

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 v2 hard to play on drums?

48 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 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Proud Mary v2?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 23, 33, 39 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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