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Poker Face · Lady Gaga

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Poker Face on drums

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

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-13, toms through bars 14-28, hi-hat through bars 29-37, toms through bars 38-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Poker Face -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-41 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-108 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED