Hooked on a feeling · Björn Skifs

88 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 34 and 42, and 3 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
HOOKED ON A FEELING · BAR 68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 41.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 6 sections: 55 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-88.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGFS1S5D+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hooked on a feeling?

115 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 Hooked on a feeling hard to play on drums?

41 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 31 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 Hooked on a feeling?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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