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Happy Days · AcId

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Happy Days on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, silence through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40 and silence through bars 41-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                                                2
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x---x---x---o-----------x---x---x---o-----------|x---o-----------o---x---x---x---x---o-----------|
Happy Days -- 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 55 and 56.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus 3 and the Break 3 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 51-58 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 5 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED