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Born This Way · lady Gaga

EXERCISE 4 OF 19
Groove B -- Part B
92 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born This Way on drums

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

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46 and kick and crashes through bars 47-54, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Born This Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-30 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 51-94 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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