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Feels Like Rain · Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt

Feels Like Rain · Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt
EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 10 PASSED · 62 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feels Like Rain on drums

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.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-85.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Feels Like Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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