Be Happy · Aexjs

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 12 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BE HAPPY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 9 sections: 83 keep time, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-55.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
8 groovesAFHDS4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Be Happy?

107 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 Be Happy hard to play on drums?

29 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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