Felix de Luxe · Taxi nach Paris

102 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-39, 57-61 and 87-101 -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FELIX DE LUXE · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 82.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 16 sections: 78 keep time, 2 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-102.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
PART B
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFABDI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Felix de Luxe?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Felix de Luxe hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Felix de Luxe?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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