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Feeling This · blink-182

EXERCISE 17 OF 31
Hold Groove F for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 41-48)
101 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFJAGH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feeling This on drums

119 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-37, silence through bars 38-40, hi-hat through bars 41-84, snare through bars 85-90, toms through bars 91-92 and snare through bars 93-98, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 20, and 13 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Feeling This -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 8, 91, 92, 107 and 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F, A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-87 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Feeling This?

173 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 Feeling This hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Feeling This?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 8, 91, 92, 107 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED