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Felix de Luxe · Taxi nach Paris

Felix de Luxe · Taxi nach Paris
EXERCISE 15 OF 31
Join Part E to Chorus (bars 30-32)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART E
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Felix de Luxe on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-11, hi-hat through bars 12-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-21, snare through bars 22-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-41, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x----------x----x----------x----x----------x----x----------x----|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
Felix de Luxe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-26 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-54 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 47-61 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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