Die With A Smile · Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars

89 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 78 BPM, 3:25 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 16-17, and 7 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 78 BPM
DIE WITH A SMILE · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 25 and 15 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 9 sections: 43 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-17.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S6
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEKS8S6S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Die With A Smile?

78 BPM, in 3/4, 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?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 25 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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