Feel it Still · Portugal. The Man

105 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 33-39 and 43-71, and 1 more place -- 69.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 158 BPM
FEEL IT STILL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 91 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-74.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBAS6CS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Feel it Still?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Feel it Still hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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