I Feel Fine · The Beatles

96 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 23 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
I FEEL FINE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 62 and 63.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 71 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-32.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCES1DS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Feel Fine?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 I Feel Fine hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 I Feel Fine?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 62 and 63.

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