003 Happy · Big Bottom Boy

193 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 5 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 260 BPM
003 HAPPY · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 13 sections: 166 keep time, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-40.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK 3
9 groovesBHS9LK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 003 Happy?

260 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 003 Happy hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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