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Whatever Makes You Happy (Song 56) · Connor Love

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

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

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, ride through bars 25-32, silence through bars 33-35, hi-hat through bars 36-45 and silence through bars 46-75, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Whatever Makes You Happy (Song 56) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Break 3 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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