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I Feel So · Box Car Racer

EXERCISE 3 OF 30
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
48 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHBES1G+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Feel So on drums

111 bars, 6:21, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-35, silence through bars 36-38, toms through bars 39-50, hi-hat through bars 51-55 and silence through bars 56-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 5 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 27, 32 and 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-35 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-55 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-88 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-111 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Feel So?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Feel So 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 So?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 27, 32 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED