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I Feel Fine · The Beatles

EXERCISE 5 OF 21
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 11-32)
63 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Feel Fine on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-11, ride through bars 12-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, ride through bars 42-58, silence through bars 59-61 and toms through bars 62-63, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------------------r-----|
T1 |------x--x--------------|
BD |x-----------g--------x--|
I Feel Fine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-76 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED