Just The Way You Are (Cover) [Bruno Mars] · Pierce The Veil

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-31, 34-39 and 58-63, and 1 more place -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (COVER) [BRUNO MARS] · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 14 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 9-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 20 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

PART N
CHORUS
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AI
BREAK
OUTRO
7 groovesUNBAIAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just The Way You Are (Cover) [Bruno Mars]?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Just The Way You Are (Cover) [Bruno Mars] hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Just The Way You Are (Cover) [Bruno Mars]?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 14 more.

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