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How Country Feels · Randy Houser

How Country Feels · Randy Houser
EXERCISE 14 OF 28
Fill at bar 59 (a small one)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How Country Feels on drums

83 bars, 4:56, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-18, 20-22 and 24-29, and 6 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
How Country Feels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 47, 55, 59, 70, 71, 76 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 28-44 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is How Country Feels?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is How Country Feels hard to play on drums?

37 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in How Country Feels?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 47, 55, 59, 70, 71, 76 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED