Whatever Makes You Happy (Song 56) · Connor Love

106 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-21, 36-45 and 76-84, and 1 more place -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY (SONG 56) · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 12, 22, 25, 26, 27 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 8 sections: 55 keep time, 13 are fills, 5 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-45.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART S6
OUTRO
6 groovesES5CS6S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whatever Makes You Happy (Song 56)?

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 Whatever Makes You Happy (Song 56) hard to play on drums?

60 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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.

How many fills are in Whatever Makes You Happy (Song 56)?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 12, 22, 25, 26, 27 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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