Happier Than Ever · Billie Eilish

49 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 1:50 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 6 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
HAPPIER THAN EVER · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 31 and 32.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 4 sections: 38 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-48.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Happier Than Ever?

80 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 Than Ever hard to play on drums?

34 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Happier Than Ever?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 31 and 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 49 BARS ANALYSED
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