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Electric Feel · MGMT

EXERCISE 10 OF 26
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 34-36)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
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
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Electric Feel on drums

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.

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
102 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-35, hi-hat through bars 36-51, toms through bars 52-77, hi-hat through bars 78-101 and silence through bars 102-104, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    18           19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |----x-------|x-------x---|
T1 |x-xx--xxx-xx|--xxx-xx--xx|
BD |x---x---x---|x---x---x---|
Electric Feel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-77 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 90-102 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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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