Feels (Feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, and Big Sean) · Calvin Harris

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-61 and 75-90 -- 84.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 102 BPM
FEELS (FEAT. PHARRELL WILLIAMS, KATY PERRY, AND BIG SEAN) · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 4 sections: 74 keep time, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-74.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Feels (Feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, and Big Sean)?

102 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 Feels (Feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, and Big Sean) hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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