On My Soul · Bruno Mars

93 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-31, 54-60 and 77-78, and 2 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ON MY SOUL · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 7, 9, 23, 24, 25 and 14 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 12 sections: 50 keep time, 20 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-22.

PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMIGBD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On My Soul?

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 On My Soul hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in On My Soul?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 7, 9, 23, 24, 25 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Bruno Mars drum parts

EVERY BRUNO MARS CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →