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Die With A Smile · Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars

Die With A Smile · Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
EXERCISE 10 OF 19
Fill at bar 31 and 65 (a small one)
46 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART S6
BREAK
7 groovesLS8S1AH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die With A Smile on drums

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.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, ride through bars 29-30, toms through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-59 and ride through bars 60-62, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x---------x-----------x-|
Die With A Smile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- L, F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-68 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED