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

EXERCISE 19 OF 24
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 50-52)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGJCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man Guitar Cover on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-33, ride through bars 34-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man Guitar Cover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- G, C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-54 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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