Smoking Out The Window · Bruno Mars

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 6 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
SMOKING OUT THE WINDOW · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 20, 22 and 28 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 5 sections: 20 keep time, 34 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smoking Out The Window?

82 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 Smoking Out The Window hard to play on drums?

61 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Smoking Out The Window?

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 20, 22 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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