Die With A Smile by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars · Mint

102 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 158 BPM, 3:52 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-30, and 3 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
DIE WITH A SMILE BY LADY GAGA & BRUNO MARS · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 31, 32, 38 and 5 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 6 sections: 38 keep time, 11 are fills and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-52.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART E
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS6EKS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Die With A Smile by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars?

158 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Die With A Smile by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars hard to play on drums?

38 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Die With A Smile by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 31, 32, 38 and 5 more.

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