Feels So Good · Chuck Mangione

120 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 9-13, and 17 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 119 BPM
FEELS SO GOOD · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 25, 32, 34 and 18 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 3 sections: 51 keep time, 24 are fills and 43 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAWNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Feels So Good?

119 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 So Good hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 So Good?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 25, 32, 34 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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