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Happy Together · The Turtles

Happy Together · The Turtles
EXERCISE 8 OF 21
Groove G
64 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Happy Together on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-76 and ride through bars 77-86.

The beat

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.

    4
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Happy Together -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-79 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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