Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With (AI Tab) · King Crimson

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 26-28 and 30, and 4 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU HAVE TO BE HAPPY WITH (AI TAB) · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 15, 53, 54, 55, 59, 61 and 5 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 53-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 11 sections: 53 keep time, 11 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-36.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART P
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGPCIS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With (AI Tab)?

91 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 With What You Have To Be Happy With (AI Tab) hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 With What You Have To Be Happy With (AI Tab)?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 15, 53, 54, 55, 59, 61 and 5 more.

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