HAPPY FACE · Moon Walker

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 10 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 91 BPM
HAPPY FACE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 36, 56, 64, 65, 66 and 4 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 64-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 11 sections: 50 keep time, 10 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART B
BREAK
PART B
PART C
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesEBGCS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is HAPPY FACE?

91 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 FACE hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 FACE?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 36, 56, 64, 65, 66 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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