Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man Guitar Cover · MasMon

71 bars, 3:47, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Country / FolkRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 26-33 and 39-44, and 4 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BRUNO MARS - WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN GUITAR COVER · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 37, 45, 63 and 1 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-33.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGJCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man Guitar Cover?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man Guitar Cover hard to play on drums?

35 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man Guitar Cover?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 37, 45, 63 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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