Feels Like We Only Go Backwards · Tame Impala

59 bars, 3:06, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7 and 9-10, and 10 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
FEELS LIKE WE ONLY GO BACKWARDS · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 15, 19, 21, 23, 27 and 8 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 6 sections: 41 keep time, 14 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-10.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCQS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Feels Like We Only Go Backwards?

75 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 We Only Go Backwards hard to play on drums?

57 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?

59 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 We Only Go Backwards?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 15, 19, 21, 23, 27 and 8 more.

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