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Only Happy When It Rains · Garbage

EXERCISE 2 OF 16
Groove B
80 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only Happy When It Rains on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
86/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-16, 27-42 and 44-57, and 4 more places -- 67.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Only Happy When It Rains -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 2, 94 and 106.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Only Happy When It Rains?

120 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 Only Happy When It Rains hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Only Happy When It Rains?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 2, 94 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED