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After Last Night · Bruno Mars ft Anderson Paak

After Last Night · Bruno Mars ft Anderson Paak
EXERCISE 25 OF 47
Groove K
113 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play After Last Night on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, silence through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-63, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----|
After Last Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 60-69 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-91 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 88-123 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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