Happy Birthday · Misc. Traditional

13 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 0:16 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
13
LENGTH
0:16
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12 -- 92.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

13 bars: 13 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Happy Birthday?

150 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 Happy Birthday hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

13 bars, about 0:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 13 BARS ANALYSED
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