Poker Face · First to Eleven

112 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-25, 27 and 37-40, and 5 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
POKER FACE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 36, 64, 68 and 4 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 13 sections: 60 keep time, 10 are fills, 22 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-55.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART N
PART S9
PART F
PART N
8 groovesHFNS9S2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Poker Face?

125 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 Poker Face hard to play on drums?

49 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Poker Face?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 36, 64, 68 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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