The Lazy Song · Bruno Mars

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-19 and 21, and 16 more places -- 52.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
THE LAZY SONG · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 2.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 5 sections: 61 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-31.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lazy Song?

88 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 The Lazy Song hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Lazy Song?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 2.

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