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Flashdance… What A Feeling · Irene Cara

EXERCISE 3 OF 10
Groove C
73 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flashdance… What A Feeling on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-84.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Flashdance… What A Feeling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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