APT. · ROSÉ & Bruno Mars

104 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopPunk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-27 and 29-35, and 2 more places -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
APT. · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 78 and 80.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 9 sections: 88 keep time, 2 are fills, 5 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-27.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEJDS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is APT.?

145 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 APT. hard to play on drums?

52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in APT.?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 78 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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