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Happy Face · Treaty Oak Revival

EXERCISE 40 OF 43
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 95-97)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGBJS1S7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Happy Face on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-22, toms through bars 23-25, snare through bars 26-36, hi-hat through bars 37-50 and snare through bars 51-66, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-50 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37               38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x---x-|
Happy Face -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 36, 52 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-65 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-83 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-96 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Happy Face?

130 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?

39 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 36, 52 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED