Flashdance… What A Feeling · Irene Cara

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-25 and 27-33, and 6 more places -- 91.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
FLASHDANCE… WHAT A FEELING · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 34 and 58.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 2 sections: 76 keep time, 3 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-84.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flashdance… What A Feeling?

92 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 Flashdance… What A Feeling hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Flashdance… What A Feeling?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 34 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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