I Feel Lucky · Mary Chapin Carpenter

103 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-18, 21-26 and 29-41, and 8 more places -- 73% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
I FEEL LUCKY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 44, 52, 60, 72, 80 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 3 sections: 87 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-27.

OUTRO
3 groovesCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Feel Lucky?

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 Lucky hard to play on drums?

45 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Lucky?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 44, 52, 60, 72, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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