Happy Days · AcId

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8, 13-16 and 26-29, and 2 more places -- 70.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
HAPPY DAYS · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 56.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 11 sections: 43 keep time, 2 are fills and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-40.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAS4JHS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Happy Days?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Days hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Days?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 56.

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