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Are You Happy Now? · Michelle Branch

EXERCISE 17 OF 28
Groove K -- Part K
61 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Are You Happy Now? on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
78/100

ride through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-54, snare through bars 55-63, silence through bars 64-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-76.

The beat

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.

    48
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |-o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o----|
SD |-------------x-----x--x-----x--x-----x--------x-|
BD |-x-----------------x-----x----------------------|
Are You Happy Now? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- M, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-22 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-32 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 43-76 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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