052 - Proud Mary

About the song

Arranged by Johnie Vinson, originally by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Roadmap

Played as fast as possible.

History

The original version of this song, by CCR, is just over 3 minutes in length. Our arrangement, played at the correct tempo, would be about the same. The song, however, is not particularly "peppy", so at some point, it was decided that the song should be played faster. This modification snowballed into an odd tradition of playing the song as fast as humanly possible - previously referred to as "on crack" in order to differentiate from playing it normally. The current "record time" on this song is somewhere around 42 seconds, which translates to a tempo of approximately whole note = 90.

At the recording of America's Pep Band in 2001, it was clocked at 56.5 seconds.