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HAPPY BIRTHDAY METAL · AGGX

EXERCISE 8 OF 21
Groove D -- Part D
45 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play HAPPY BIRTHDAY METAL on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-48, silence through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-68.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HAPPY BIRTHDAY METAL -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- I -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 31-48 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED