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

EXERCISE 24 OF 68
Groove R -- Part R
120 / 203 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
PART P
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART U
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJRAUP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die With A Smile Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars cover on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-64, snare through bars 65-76, hi-hat through bars 77-82 and snare through bars 83-90, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    109
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----|
Die With A Smile Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars cover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, P -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part R -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Break and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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