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The Happening · Pixies

EXERCISE 9 OF 21
Groove E
98 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Happening on drums

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

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, ride through bars 23-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34, ride through bars 35-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-62, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
The Happening -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 28-35 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED