A Matter Of Feeling · Duran Duran

153 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32 and 49-80 -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
A MATTER OF FEELING · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 151, 152 and 153.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 151-153 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 4 sections: 144 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-150.

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

Questions

What BPM is A Matter Of Feeling?

104 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 A Matter Of Feeling hard to play on drums?

51 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 A Matter Of Feeling?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 151, 152 and 153.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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