After Last Night · Bruno Mars ft Anderson Paak

143 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 23 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
AFTER LAST NIGHT · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 47, 63, 67, 89, 105, 108 and 10 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 14 sections: 97 keep time, 16 are fills, 16 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECFDB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is After Last Night?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 After Last Night hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in After Last Night?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 47, 63, 67, 89, 105, 108 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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