Happy Song · Composers of MSB

30 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:00 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
30
LENGTH
1:00
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-30 -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HAPPY SONG · BAR 15
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

30 bars across 2 sections: 29 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-30.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Happy Song?

120 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 Song hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

30 bars, about 1:00 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?

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

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