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That's What I Like;) · Bruno Mars

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove A -- Chorus
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PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesACES3S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play That's What I Like;) on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-31, silence through bars 32-34, hi-hat through bars 35-46, snare through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-71 and silence through bars 72-74, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 40 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------|
That's What I Like;) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-31 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-83 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is That's What I Like;)?

134 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 That's What I Like;) hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in That's What I Like;)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED