Uptown Funk (Feat. Bruno Mars) · Mark Ronson

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 / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 32 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
UPTOWN FUNK (FEAT. BRUNO MARS) · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 100, 112, 120, 124 and 128.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
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 11 sections: 101 keep time, 8 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-97.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGFDJE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Uptown Funk (Feat. Bruno Mars)?

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 (Feat. Bruno Mars) 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 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 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 (Feat. Bruno Mars)?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 100, 112, 120, 124 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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