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My Happy Ending · Avril Lavigne

EXERCISE 24 OF 59
Join Chorus 2 to Break (bars 51-53)
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PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Happy Ending on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-29, hi-hat through bars 30-101, snare through bars 102-117, silence through bars 118-121 and hi-hat through bars 122-162.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- C, D -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-33 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-70 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 69-82 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-98 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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