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Uptown Funk (Feat. Bruno Mars) · Mark Ronson

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGFDJE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Uptown Funk (Feat. Bruno Mars) on drums

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

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-60 and kick and crashes through bars 61-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Uptown Funk (Feat. Bruno Mars) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-42 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-101 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 98-114 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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