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Feel Like Makin' Love · Bad Company

EXERCISE 8 OF 26
Groove E
81 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesFCSS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feel Like Makin' Love on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, snare through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-55, snare through bars 56-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 15-19 and 32, and 7 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Feel Like Makin' Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 55, 58, 82, 91, 100 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-77 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Feel Like Makin' Love?

84 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 Feel Like Makin' Love hard to play on drums?

48 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Feel Like Makin' Love?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 55, 58, 82, 91, 100 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED