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If It Makes You Happy · Sheryl Crow

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
5 groovesBFALCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If It Makes You Happy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-73, ride through bars 74-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-125.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
If It Makes You Happy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 38, 58, 66, 70, 72 and 7 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 -- B, F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-40 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 52-73 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-85 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 90-113 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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