HAPPY BIRTHDAY METAL · AGGX

68 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-47 and 53-58 -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY METAL · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 60.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 11 sections: 44 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-48.

PART S2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFICDG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is HAPPY BIRTHDAY METAL?

120 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 METAL hard to play on drums?

57 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?

68 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 HAPPY BIRTHDAY METAL?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 60.

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