Are You Happy Now? · Michelle Branch

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-62 and 68-75 -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 94 BPM
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 46 and 76.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 76
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 9 sections: 58 keep time, 3 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-62.

PART B
PART E
PART G
PART I
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMBIEG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Are You Happy Now??

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Are You Happy Now? hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Are You Happy Now??

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 46 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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