My Happiness · Powderfinger

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-53, 63-81 and 99-101 -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
MY HAPPINESS · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 33, 34, 54 and 1 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 8 sections: 85 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-22.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesJEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Happiness?

88 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 My Happiness hard to play on drums?

58 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 My Happiness?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 33, 34, 54 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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