Uptown Funk · Mark Ronson (Feat. Bruno Mars)

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

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-35 and 37-39, and 7 more places -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
UPTOWN FUNK · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 100, 112, 120 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 128
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 11 sections: 102 keep time, 4 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCEHS1Fill 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?

50 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 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Uptown Funk?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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