Happy 2bD · Farin Urlaub

129 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-32, 34-40 and 42-57, and 4 more places -- 89.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 171 BPM
HAPPY 2BD · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 33, 64 and 65.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 5 sections: 122 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-129.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Happy 2bD?

171 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Happy 2bD hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Happy 2bD?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 33, 64 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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