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On My Soul · Bruno Mars

EXERCISE 28 OF 51
Run H1 · Part H (bars 40-45)
72 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On My Soul on drums

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

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-93.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
On My Soul -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- M, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-68 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 44-70 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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