Happy Together · The Turtles

86 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-12, 14-20 and 31-32, and 3 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HAPPY TOGETHER · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 33, 37, 53, 84 and 85.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 84-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 10 sections: 60 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-20.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Happy Together?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Together hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Happy Together?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 33, 37, 53, 84 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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