Poker Face · Lady Gaga

108 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronic90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 37-40 and 45-55, and 1 more place -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 119 BPM
POKER FACE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 10 sections: 79 keep time, 10 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-108.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
VERSE 3
6 groovesDCS1BE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Poker Face?

119 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?

54 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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