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Feel So Numb · Rob Zombie

EXERCISE 2 OF 31
Groove G -- Chorus
28 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART C
VERSE
PART E
CHORUS
VERSE 2
PART E
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGDECJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feel So Numb on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, toms through bars 21-27, hi-hat through bars 28-48, toms through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 41-48 and 77-84 -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Feel So Numb -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 28, 32, 56, 60, 64 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-29 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-77 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Feel So Numb?

127 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 So Numb hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 So Numb?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 28, 32, 56, 60, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED