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

EXERCISE 30 OF 37
Run U2 · Chorus 2 (bars 57-73)
78 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just The Way You Are (Cover) [Bruno Mars] on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, snare through bars 20-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-39, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Just The Way You Are (Cover) [Bruno Mars] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- U, AI -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part Z and Part AB -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-90 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-98 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED