Risk It All · Bruno Mars

44 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 2:03 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
16/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 15-20 and 36-41 -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
RISK IT ALL · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

44 bars across 5 sections: 26 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-23.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesCS4DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Risk It All?

86 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 Risk It All hard to play on drums?

16 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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