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003 Happy · Big Bottom Boy

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 003 Happy on drums

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.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
34/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-41, hi-hat through bars 42-73, snare through bars 74-105, hi-hat through bars 106-121 and kick and crashes through bars 122-123, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x---x---x-----|
003 Happy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B, H -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 124-175 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED