The Happening · Pixies

110 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-28 and 35-46, and 3 more places -- 52.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
THE HAPPENING · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 34 and 74.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 8 sections: 97 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-110.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Happening?

112 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 The Happening hard to play on drums?

48 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?

110 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Happening?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 34 and 74.

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