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The Lazy Song · Bruno Mars

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Lazy Song on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-32, toms through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-58, toms through bars 59-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-70.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----x-------x---|
SD |r-r-x-rxrxr-x-rx|
BD |x-x-------------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
The Lazy Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-66 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED