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A Matter Of Feeling · Duran Duran

EXERCISE 10 OF 14
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 80-82)
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PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Matter Of Feeling on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
51/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
A Matter Of Feeling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-81 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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