I Just Might (作り直し) · Bruno Mars

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-20, 33 and 37-48, and 1 more place -- 37.5% 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 (作り直し) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 50, 70, 76 and 78.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 10 sections: 75 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-20.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
VERSE
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBIJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Just Might (作り直し)?

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 (作り直し) hard to play on drums?

43 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Just Might (作り直し)?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 50, 70, 76 and 78.

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