I Just Might · Bruno Mars

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 9 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
I JUST MIGHT · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 28, 29, 30 and 15 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 63 keep time and 21 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-20.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
VERSE 4
3 groovesCEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Just Might?

103 BPM, in 4/4, 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 I Just Might hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 I Just Might?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 28, 29, 30 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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