happy · Nf

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-19, 37-51 and 69-75, and 1 more place -- 88% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
HAPPY · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 76 and 84.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 2 are fills and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS3S5S6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is happy?

105 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?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in happy?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 76 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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