Die With A Smile Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars cover · her last sight

203 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 157 BPM, 3:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 45, and 33 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 157 BPM
DIE WITH A SMILE LADY GAGA, BRUNO MARS COVER · BAR 109
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 26, 34, 36, 40, 56, 60 and 16 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 17 sections: 120 keep time, 22 are fills, 33 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-128.

PART A
CHORUS
PART P
PART R
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
11 groovesJRAUP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Die With A Smile Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars cover?

157 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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 Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars cover hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars cover?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 26, 34, 36, 40, 56, 60 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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