Electric Feel · MGMT

126 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 102 BPM, 3:48 of playing on hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-32 and 52-74 -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
ELECTRIC FEEL · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 10 sections: 112 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-76.

PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
OUTRO
8 groovesDHNCK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Electric Feel?

102 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Electric Feel 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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