Happy? · Mudvayne

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 65-67, and 1 more place -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
HAPPY? · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 18, 20, 24 and 18 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 14 sections: 50 keep time, 24 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

PART A
PART G
PART M
PART G
CHORUS
PART U
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNAGMJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Happy??

100 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? hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Happy??

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 18, 20, 24 and 18 more.

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