Uptown Funk · Bruno Mars

128 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 27 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
UPTOWN FUNK · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 68, 100, 112, 124 and 128.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 128
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 12 sections: 100 keep time, 6 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-59.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGBDEK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Uptown Funk?

115 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 Uptown Funk hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Uptown Funk?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 68, 100, 112, 124 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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