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Feel The Pressure · DRAIN

EXERCISE 11 OF 52
2-bar fill at bar 43
66 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDOS1AEK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feel The Pressure on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-21, ride through bars 22-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-26, hi-hat through bars 27-70, ride through bars 71-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 36-42 and 48-54, and 4 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Feel The Pressure -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 34, 35, 43, 44, 55 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-57 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 52-65 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Feel The Pressure?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Pressure hard to play on drums?

61 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Feel The Pressure?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 34, 35, 43, 44, 55 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED