Die With A Smile · Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars

102 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 108 BPM, 4:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-49, and 2 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
DIE WITH A SMILE · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 31 and 65.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-53.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART S6
BREAK
7 groovesLS8S1AH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Die With A Smile?

108 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Die With A Smile hard to play on drums?

32 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Die With A Smile?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 31 and 65.

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