Feeling Good · Muse

59 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 108 BPM, 3:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-17, 19-22 and 34-38 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
FEELING GOOD · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 33 and 39.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 5 sections: 21 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesBS5S1GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Feeling Good?

108 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Feeling Good hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Feeling Good?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 33 and 39.

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