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HAPPY FACE · Moon Walker

HAPPY FACE · Moon Walker
EXERCISE 31 OF 34
Run E2 · Outro (bars 73-82)
71 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play HAPPY FACE on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, silence through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-63, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HAPPY FACE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-36 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-61 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-73 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-85 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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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