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Feels Like The First Time · Foreigner

EXERCISE 27 OF 32
Join Chorus 2 to Outro (bars 76-78)
91 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBFGK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feels Like The First Time on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-52, snare through bars 53-68, toms through bars 69-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-78, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 29-35 and 71-77, and 2 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----x-------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Feels Like The First Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-39 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-56 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-90 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Feels Like The First Time?

110 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 Like The First Time hard to play on drums?

49 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Feels Like The First Time?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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