Happy birthday (Rock version) · JL Guitar Music PH

25 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 0:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
0:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6 and 13-23 -- 64% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 158 BPM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (ROCK VERSION) · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 3 sections: 20 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-23.

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

Questions

What BPM is Happy birthday (Rock version)?

158 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 birthday (Rock version) hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 0:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 (Rock version)?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 25 BARS ANALYSED
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