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How Does It Feel? · Citizen

EXERCISE 13 OF 26
Run D1 · Part D (bars 34-65)
138 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesADS5LFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How Does It Feel? on drums

149 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:44 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
37/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-97, silence through bars 98-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-149.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-31 and 49-63, and 4 more places -- 59.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x---------x-|
How Does It Feel? -- 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 16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 100 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A, D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-101 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 100-149 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is How Does It Feel??

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 How Does It Feel? 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 How Does It Feel??

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 100 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED