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Happier · Marshmello Ft. Bastille

Happier · Marshmello Ft. Bastille
EXERCISE 30 OF 38
Join Chorus 2 to Part P (bars 59-61)
60 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART P
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGBQES1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Happier on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-36, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 45-47, and 3 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--g-----x---------g-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-x---x-----x---x-|
Happier -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-29 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-33 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-41 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-77 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Happier?

100 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 Happier hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

How many fills are in Happier?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED