Born This Way · lady Gaga

120 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-29, 47-49 and 51-57, and 6 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BORN THIS WAY · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 119 and 120.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 119-120 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 13 sections: 96 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-49.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCBS1S11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born This Way?

123 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 Born This Way hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Born This Way?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 119 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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