happier · Olivia Rodrigo

72 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 2:31 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
14/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 30 and 32, and 3 more places -- 68.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
HAPPIER · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 49 keep time and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-53.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS1ADS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is happier?

85 BPM, in 3/4, 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 happier hard to play on drums?

14 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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