Virtually Happy · Holly Golightly

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 83-85 and 87, and 2 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
VIRTUALLY HAPPY · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 68, 70, 72, 76, 81 and 2 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 69 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-94.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
PART D
PART H
PART H
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBMFHS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Virtually Happy?

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 Virtually Happy hard to play on drums?

45 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Virtually Happy?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 68, 70, 72, 76, 81 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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