Million Reasons - Acoustic Guitar · Lady Gaga

33 bars, 2:02, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Hip Hop / ReggaePopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
33
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 13-14 and 17-18, and 1 more place -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 65 BPM
MILLION REASONS - ACOUSTIC GUITAR · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 33.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 33
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

33 bars across 5 sections: 25 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-18.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCES1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Million Reasons - Acoustic Guitar?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Million Reasons - Acoustic Guitar hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

33 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, floor tom and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Million Reasons - Acoustic Guitar?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 33.

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