I Feel For You · Chaka Khan

78 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 14-16, and 15 more places -- 74.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
I FEEL FOR YOU · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars: 77 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-77.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Feel For You?

120 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 I Feel For You hard to play on drums?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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