Happy Birthday In The Sky · Placebo

136 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 15-19, and 10 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN THE SKY · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 47, 48, 75, 76, 84, 107 and 12 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 107-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 10 sections: 89 keep time, 18 are fills and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-45.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
6 groovesGBS9DS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Happy Birthday In The Sky?

112 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Happy Birthday In The Sky hard to play on drums?

55 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Happy Birthday In The Sky?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 47, 48, 75, 76, 84, 107 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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