Moves Like Jagger · Maroon 5

107 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-24, 42-48 and 74-80 -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MOVES LIKE JAGGER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 54, 55, 56 and 57.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 54-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 11 sections: 86 keep time, 5 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
8 groovesBLFHN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moves Like Jagger?

130 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 Moves Like Jagger hard to play on drums?

42 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Moves Like Jagger?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 54, 55, 56 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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