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happier · Olivia Rodrigo

EXERCISE 9 OF 9
Play the whole song with the record
49 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 72 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS1ADS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play happier on drums

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

14 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
14/100

silence through bars 1-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-27, silence through bars 28-29, snare through bars 30-53, hi-hat through bars 54-57 and snare through bars 58-61, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
happier -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 52-58 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED