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

EXERCISE 3 OF 39
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With (AI Tab) on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-53 and snare through bars 54-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |xx-----x--x--x--|
Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With (AI Tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-41 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part S and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-60 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED