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Dr. Feelgood · Mötley Crüe

EXERCISE 10 OF 35
Groove H
94 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART C
PART P
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECGRPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dr. Feelgood on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, ride through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-31, ride through bars 32-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-43, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-23, 32-35 and 44-47, and 14 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16               17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|------------x--x|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x--x--x------x|--x--x--x--x---x|
Dr. Feelgood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 54, 79, 96, 98, 104, 113 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-35 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-84 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 5 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 99-119 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dr. Feelgood?

111 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 Dr. Feelgood hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dr. Feelgood?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 54, 79, 96, 98, 104, 113 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED