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Happy? · Mudvayne

EXERCISE 7 OF 62
Groove N -- Chorus
15 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Happy? on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31 and ride through bars 32-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-15 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-29 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-45 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED