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I Feel Lucky · Mary Chapin Carpenter

I Feel Lucky · Mary Chapin Carpenter
EXERCISE 10 OF 18
Groove K
81 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
3 groovesCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Feel Lucky on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-42, toms through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-100, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
I Feel Lucky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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