If It Makes You Happy · Sheryl Crow

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 17, and 12 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 38, 58, 66, 70, 72 and 7 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 10 sections: 96 keep time, 14 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-25.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBFALCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If It Makes You Happy?

98 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 If It Makes You Happy hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in If It Makes You Happy?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 38, 58, 66, 70, 72 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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