Feels Like Rain · Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt

85 bars, 4:42, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-14, 18-20 and 22-28, and 8 more places -- 77.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 72 BPM
FEELS LIKE RAIN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 64.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 2 sections: 74 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-85.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Feels Like Rain?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Feels Like Rain hard to play on drums?

37 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Feels Like Rain?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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