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Feels So Good · Chuck Mangione

Feels So Good · Chuck Mangione
EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAWNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feels So Good on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100

ride through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-27, ride through bars 28-31, hi-hat through bars 32-34, ride through bars 35-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-55, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-120 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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