Pharrell Williams - Happy · Pharrell Williams

61 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17 and 22-37 -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
PHARRELL WILLIAMS - HAPPY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 8 sections: 51 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pharrell Williams - Happy?

160 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 Pharrell Williams - Happy hard to play on drums?

53 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

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