My Happy Ending · Avril Lavigne

162 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 38-40, and 24 more places -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
MY HAPPY ENDING · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 11, 45, 60, 85, 93 and 10 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 20 sections: 101 keep time, 16 are fills, 22 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-29.

PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART M
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
12 groovesCDGHM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Happy Ending?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My Happy Ending hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 My Happy Ending?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 11, 45, 60, 85, 93 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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